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Poanes viator
Conservation status
Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Poanes
Species:	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.

Host plants

Larvae feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Poanes viator Broad-winged Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. 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

• Broad-winged Skipper, Butterflies of Canada
• Broad-winged Skipper, Butterflies and Moths of North America

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