Poanes viator | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Poanes |
Species: | P. viator |
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Poanes viator (W.H. Edwards, 1865) | |
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Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a skipper butterfly found in North America.
It ranges from Texas to Florida and along the east coast to Massachusetts and west to southern Quebec and Ontario to the Dakotas. [2]
Larvae feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis . [3]
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The Hobomok skipper is a North American butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.
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Euphyes dion, the Dion skipper or Alabama skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in scattered populations along the Atlantic coast of North America, from western Massachusetts and south-eastern New York south to north-eastern Florida, west to north-eastern Texas, and north to south-eastern North Dakota, northern Wisconsin, southern Ontario and southern Quebec. It is listed as a species of special concern in the US state of Connecticut.
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