---
title: "Long-tailed Skipper"
description: "Urbanus proteus — Insetos e aranhas. The long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus) is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina and north into the eastern United States and southern Ontario."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/long-tailed-skipper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Long-tailed Skipper

> Urbanus proteus — Insetos e aranhas. The long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus) is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina and north into the eastern United States and southern Ontario.

- Scientific name: *Urbanus proteus*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 30115
- Wikidata: [Q2361928](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2361928)
- iNaturalist taxon: [67435](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/67435)

## Names

- en: Long-tailed Skipper
- es: Saltarina azul de cola larga
- fr: Hespérie à longues queues

## Countries with the most observations

US (23032), MX (1796), BR (398), CO (222), CR (172), EC (155), DO (92), AR (86), HN (73), JM (68), CU (61), PA (53)

## Summary

The long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus) is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina and north into the eastern United States and southern Ontario. It cannot live in areas with prolonged frost.  It is a showy butterfly, with wings of light brown tinted with iridescent blue, and two long tails extending from the hindwings. The robust body is light blue dorsally. It has a large head, prominent eyes, and a wingspan between 4.5 and 6 centimeters.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tailed_skipper

## Photo

![Long-tailed Skipper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/long-tailed-skipper/medium.jpg)

Photo: Michael W Belitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104783629

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/long-tailed-skipper?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).