Image: frenulum of male regent skipper
The male of the regent skipper is the only skipper to possess a frenulum. This wing-locking structure is absent in all other butterflies and skippers, and in some families of moths.
- Photographer:
- David Britton
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- regent skipper
- Scientific name:
- Euschemon raffflesia
- Family:
- Hesperiidae
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
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Tags difference between moth and butterfly,