Poanes

Poanes

Taxobox
name = "Poanes"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Zabulon Skipper, "Poanes zabulon"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
subfamilia = Hesperiinae
genus = "Poanes"
genus_authority = Scudder, 1872
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =Numerous, see below.

"Poanes" is a genus of skippers (family Hesperiidae) distributed throughout North and Central America. The larvae feed on grasses and sedges.

Species include:
* Aaron's Skipper, "Poanes aaroni"
* Benito's Skipper, "Poanes benito"
* Hobomok Skipper, "Poanes hobomok":Recorded food plants include "Panicum" and "Poa"
* Yellow-stained Skipper, "Poanes inimica"
* Mulberry Wing, "Poanes massasoit":Food plant: "Carex elata"
* Umber Skipper, "Poanes melane"
* Oyamel Skipper, "Poanes monticola"
* Snow-fringed Skipper, "Poanes niveolimbus"
* Golden Skipper, "Poanes taxiles"
* Ulphila Skipper, "Poanes ulphila"
* Broad-winged Skipper, "Poanes viator":Recorded food plants include "Carex", "Panicum", "Phragmites", "Zizania" and "Zizaniopsis"
* Yehl Skipper, "Poanes yehl":Food plant: "Arundinaria"
* Zabulon Skipper, "Poanes zabulon"

External links

* [http://www.cirrusimage.com/skipper_zabulon.htm Zabulon Skipper - "Poanes zabulon"]
* [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/poanes/ "Poanes" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera site]


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