| Panoquina ocola | |
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| Adult in Hephzibah, Georgia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Panoquina |
| Species: | P. ocola |
| Binomial name | |
| Panoquina ocola (W.H. Edwards, 1863) |
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The Ocola Skipper or Long-windged Skipper (Panoquina ocola) 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.[1]
The wingspan is 35–43 mm.
The larvae feed on Oryza sativa, Saccharum officinarum and Hymenachne amplexicaulis.