Poanes viator
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Poanes |
| Species: | P. viator
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| Binomial name | |
| Poanes viator (W.H. Edwards, 1865)
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Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a skipper butterfly found in North America.
Distribution
[edit | edit source]It ranges from Texas to Florida and along the east coast to Massachusetts and west to southern Quebec and Ontario to the Dakotas.[2]
Host plants
[edit | edit source]Larvae feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.[3]
References
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- ^ Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Poanes, funet.fi
External links
[edit | edit source]- Broad-winged Skipper, Butterflies of Canada
- Broad-winged Skipper, Butterflies and Moths of North America
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