Poanes viator (Edwards, 1865) is a animal in the Hesperiidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.
Poanes viator (Edwards, 1865)
Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a North American skipper butterfly found across much of eastern and central North America.
Poanes viator (Edwards, 1865), commonly known as the broad-winged skipper, is a species of skipper butterfly. This butterfly is native to North America. Its distribution ranges from Texas to Florida in the southern United States, extends north along the East Coast to Massachusetts, and reaches west from there to southern Quebec, southern Ontario, and the Dakotas.
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Thorybes pylades (Scudder, 1870)
Acleros mackenii (Trimen, 1868)
Hesperilla donnysa Hewitson, 1868
Pythonides lancea (Hewitson, 1868)
Erynnis meridianus Bell, 1927
Zophopetes dysmephila (Trimen, 1868)
Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer
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