Zabulon Skipper

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Zabulon Skipper

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Poanes
Species: P. zabulon
Binomial name
Poanes zabulon
Boisduval & LeConte
male
female

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.

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