Panoquina ocola

Ocola skipper
A mounted specimen, and the imago in flight, Virginia
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Panoquina
Species:	P. ocola
Binomial name
Panoquina ocola (W.H. Edwards, 1863)
Synonyms
Hesperia ocolaEdwards, 1863 Calpodes ocola Prenes ocola Pamphila stratyllisBurmeister, 1878 Pamphila heterospilaMabille, 1878 Pamphila ortygiaMöschler, 1883

Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Paraguay north through tropical America and the West Indies to south Texas, and strays occur north to southeast Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, southern Ontario, and New York. ^[2]

The wingspan is 35–43 mm.

The larvae feed on Oryza sativa , Saccharum officinarum and Hymenachne amplexicaulis .

Subspecies

• Panoquina ocola ocola — Florida to Ohio, Mexico to Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela to Peru, Suriname
• Panoquina ocola distipunctaJohnson & Matusik, 1988 — Dominican Republic

Gallery

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  Feeding imago
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  A pair feeding at Buddleja inflorescence

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Panoquina ocola Ocola Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
2. Opler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue, coordinators (2006). "Ocola Skipper Panoquina ocola (W.H. Edwards, 1863) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". Big Sky Institute. Retrieved 2020-06-23.