Biology:Poanes viator
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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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.
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]
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Poanes viator Broad-winged Skipper". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.113461/Poanes_viator. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ↑ Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN:0618153128
- ↑ Poanes, funet.fi
External links
- Broad-winged Skipper, Butterflies of Canada
- Broad-winged Skipper, Butterflies and Moths of North America
Wikidata ☰ Q7206167 entry
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