Species
Polites sabuleti (Sandhill skipper)
Polites sabuleti. Photo: (c) Kerry Matz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Polites sabuleti, the sandhill skipper or saltgrass skipper, is a butterfly in the Hesperiidae family. It is found from southern British Columbia and eastern Washington, south through California and northern Arizona to Baja California and east to south-eastern Wyoming, central Colorado, and north-eastern New Mexico. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.