Panoquina ocola

Panoquina ocola
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)
Synonyms
  • Hesperia ocola Edwards, 1863
  • Calpodes ocola
  • Prenes ocola
  • Pamphila stratyllis Burmeister, 1878
  • Pamphila heterospila Mabille, 1878
  • Pamphila ortygia Möschler, 1883

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.

Subspecies

References

  1. Opler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, Ray E. Stanford, Michael Pogue, coordinators (2006). "Panoquina ocola". Big Sky Institute. Retrieved 2009-03-09.