Poanes viator
Species of butterfly
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Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a skipper butterfly found in North America.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Poanes |
| Species: | P. viator |
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| Poanes viator (W.H. Edwards, 1865) | |
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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
Larvae feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.[3]