Biology:Poanes viator

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Short description: Species of butterfly


Broad-winged skipper
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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.

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

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Poanes viator Broad-winged Skipper". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.113461/Poanes_viator. 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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q7206167 entry