Poanes viator
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
Larva feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.[3]
References
- "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Poanes viator Broad-winged Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. 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
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