Poanes viator

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Poanes viator
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Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Poanes
Species:
P. viator
Binomial name
Poanes viator
(W.H. Edwards, 1865)
Subspecies
  • P. v. viator
  • P. v. zizaniae

Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a skipper butterfly found in North America.

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Distribution

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

Larvae feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis . [3]

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References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Poanes viator Broad-winged Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  2. Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN   0618153128
  3. Poanes, funet.fi