Poanes viator
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P. viator
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| Poanes viator (W.H. Edwards, 1865)
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The Broad-winged Skipper (Poanes viator) 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.[1]
Host plants
Larva feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.[2]
References
- ↑ 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
