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Panoquina ocola (Ocola Skipper)

Synonyms: Hesperia ocola; Pamphila heterospila; Pamphila ortygia; Pamphila stratyllis

Wikipedia Abstract

Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Paraguay north through tropical America and the West Indies to south Texas. Strays north to southeast Arizona, west Texas, central Missouri, Ohio, central Pennsylvania, and Long Island. The wingspan is 35–43 mm. The larvae feed on Oryza sativa, Saccharum officinarum and Hymenachne amplexicaulis.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.22 inches (.031 m)

Prey / Diet

Oryza sativa (rice)[2]
Panicum repens (couch panicum)[2]
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane)[2]
Verbesina encelioides (golden crownbeard)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0