Zabulon Skipper

Zabulon Skipper

Taxobox
name = Zabulon Skipper



image_width = 250px
status = NE
status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Hesperiidae
genus = Poanes
species = "P. zabulon"
binomial = "Poanes zabulon"
binomial_authority = Boisduval & LeConte
The Zabulon Skipper, "Poanes zabulon", is a butterfly first described by the French naturalists Jean Baptiste Boisduval and John Eatton Le Conte, from the state of Georgia, United States. It ranges from Wisconsin east to the East Coast, south to Georgia, Texas, and Panama. This small butterfly has slim, triangular wings. Recorded food plants of the caterpillars are grasses such as "Agrostis", "Dactylis", "Elytrigia", "Eragrostis", "Leymus", "Poa", "Puccinellia" and "Tridens".

External links

* [http://www.cirrusimage.com/skipper_zabulon.htm Zabulon Skipper diagnostic photographs]
* [http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/mx/541.htm USGS:Butterflies of North America]
* [http://www.rlephoto.com/skippers/zabulon01.html Zabulon Skipper, Butterflies of North Carolina]


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