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Poanes viator (Broad-winged Skipper)

Synonyms: Hesperia viator

Wikipedia Abstract

Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a skipper butterfly found in North America.
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Infraspecies

Poanes viator viator
Poanes viator zizaniae

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.181 inches (.03 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Carex lacustris (hairy sedge)[2]
Carex lurida (shallow sedge)[3]
Carex rostrata (beaked sedge)[2]
Phragmites australis (common reed)[3]
Zizania aquatica (annual wildrice)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)1
Branta canadensis (Canada Goose)1
Euphyes dion (Dion Skipper)1
Euphyes vestris (Dun Skipper)1

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit 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