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North American Ecology (US and Canada)

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Panoquina ocola is a year-round resident in the southeastern United States from Virginia along the Gulf Coast and Florida, and south to Argentina and the Greater Antilles. This species migrates north in the summer reaching Indiana and New York between Sept. 1-Oct.31 (Scott 1986). Habitats are open (usually damp) areas. Host plants are grasses, especially Oryza sativa in Louisiana. There are multiple flights all year in south Florida, April1-Oct. 31 in Georgia (Scott 1986).

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Panoquina ocola

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Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Paraguay north through tropical America and the West Indies to south Texas, and strays occur north to southeast Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, southern Ontario, and New York.^[2]

The wingspan is 35–43 mm.

The larvae feed on Oryza sativa, Saccharum officinarum and Hymenachne amplexicaulis.

Subspecies

Panoquina ocola ocola — Florida to Ohio, Mexico to Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela to Peru, Suriname
Panoquina ocola distipuncta Johnson & Matusik, 1988 — Dominican Republic

Gallery

Feeding imago
A pair feeding at Buddleja inflorescence

References

^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Panoquina ocola Ocola Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
^ Opler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue, coordinators (2006). "Ocola Skipper Panoquina ocola (W.H. Edwards, 1863) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". Big Sky Institute. Retrieved 2020-06-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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Panoquina ocola: Brief Summary

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Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Paraguay north through tropical America and the West Indies to south Texas, and strays occur north to southeast Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, southern Ontario, and New York.