{"id":6463,"date":"2025-07-27T11:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T11:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/?p=6463"},"modified":"2026-07-09T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:51:08","slug":"2025-07-skipper-butterfly-in-nanegalito-es","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/es\/posts\/2025-07-skipper-butterfly-in-nanegalito-es\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u00edbrido evolutivo: Dentro del mundo de las mariposas saltarinas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Les presento a las mariposas saltarinas (familia:\u00a0 <em>Hesperiidae<\/em>), un fascinante grupo de insectos cosmopolitas. Se ganaron el apodo debido a su vuelo err\u00e1tico, bajo y cegadoramente r\u00e1pido. Gracias a sus t\u00f3rax robustos y musculosos, \u00a1algunas especies pueden salir disparadas por el aire a velocidades de hasta 30 km\/h! En t\u00e9rminos evolutivos, estas mariposas son el punto medio perfecto entre las mariposas diurnas y las polillas. Aunque lucen las cl\u00e1sicas antenas en forma de maza de las mariposas, las suyas terminan en unos curiosos ganchos apuntando hacia atr\u00e1s. Cuando descansan, colocan sus alas anteriores y posteriores en \u00e1ngulos diferentes. Como orugas, sus t\u00e1cticas de supervivencia son un poco extra\u00f1as. Por ejemplo, las larvas del hesp\u00e9rido de manchas plateadas poseen un &#8220;peine anal&#8221;, una catapulta biol\u00f3gica especializada que usan para lanzar con fuerza sus excrementos \u00a1hasta a 38 veces la longitud de su propio cuerpo!, evitando as\u00ed que los depredadores rastreen el olor de sus refugios de hojas. Si un depredador se acerca demasiado, tambi\u00e9n pueden vomitar un escudo qu\u00edmico verde y penetrante. Por si fuera poco, algunos adultos son famosos &#8220;ladrones de n\u00e9ctar&#8221;, capaces de robar el dulzor de flores complejas sin tocar jam\u00e1s sus partes reproductivas ni participar en la polinizaci\u00f3n. Me top\u00e9 con este sigiloso hesp\u00e9rido marr\u00f3n en Nanegalito, un hermoso pueblito escondido cerca de Quito, en Ecuador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les presento a las mariposas saltarinas (familia:\u00a0 Hesperiidae), un fascinante grupo de insectos cosmopolitas. Se ganaron el apodo debido a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"countries":[274,278],"order-category":[1124,319,161],"class_list":["post-6463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitofagos-herbivoros","countries-america-del-sur","countries-ecuador-es","order-category-insectos-mariposas-y-polillas-mariposas-saltarinas","order-category-insectos-mariposas-y-polillas","order-category-insectos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6468,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6463\/revisions\/6468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"countries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/countries?post=6463"},{"taxonomy":"order-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pawel.stefanoff.pl\/bugs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/order-category?post=6463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}