Panoquina ocola

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Ocola skipper
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Ocola Skipper - Panoquina ocola, Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area, Aden, Virginia - 02.jpg
A mounted specimen, and
the imago in flight, Virginia
Status TNC G5.svg
Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
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]

Contents

The wingspan is 35–43 mm.

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

Subspecies

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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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)