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Panoquina panoquin (Salt Marsh Skipper)

Synonyms: Hesperia cochles; Hesperia ophis; Hesperia panoquin; Hesperia wimico; Prenes vimico

Wikipedia Abstract

Panoquina panoquin, the salt marsh skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from New York south to Florida and the Florida Keys, west along the Gulf Coast to southern Texas. The larvae feed on Distichlis spicata.
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Prey / Diet

Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon (manienie)[1]
Distichlis spicata (marsh spikegrass)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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.
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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