Amblyscirtes aesculapius, Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper

This diminutive skipper is about 1-1 ½” wide when the wings are spread. It is called the lace-wing skipper because of the lacey brown-and-white pattern exposed when its wings are closed. The checkered pattern of the wing fringe hairs is also distinctive. When open the wing color is primarily brown with a few scattered white marks. The Creative Commons images shown here illustrate its lacy markings very well.

According to Wikipedia “It is found from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas, east to south-east Virginia, south along the Atlantic Coast to northern Florida.”

It will nectar on:
Apocynum cannabinum
Beaucarnea recurvata
Buddleja
Clethra alnifolia
Iris
Passiflora incarnata
Pentas
Prunella
Rubus
Rudbeckia
Trifolium repens
Verbena

The Passiflora shown here with the skipper is Passiflora incarnata - a vine native to same region as the skipper. Try this one first if you wish to attract the lace-wing. It may (or may not) feed on other Passiflora.

Buddleja & Clethra alnifoliais are native to the region where the lacy-wing resides.

There are numerous Rubus species that go by the common name "blackberry." Naturalized species have naturalized in every state in the continental United States. If you reside in range of the lacy-wing skipper, your naturalized blackberry will very likely appeal to this creature. The USDA has useful information about these plants.

Iris, Prunella, Rudbeckia, Trifolium repens, and Verbena are either native or naturalized in every state on the continent.

Pentas has naturalized in Florida and is grown as an annual elsewhere.

The Natural History Museum has specie-specific host plant data for other Amblyscirtes skippers. You might try these plants if you wish support this skipper.