Poanes viator explained

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.^[1]

Host plants

Larvae feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.^[2]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY.
2. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/poanes/index.html Poanes