Zabulon Skipper
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| Poanes zabulon 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.
[edit] External links
- Zabulon Skipper diagnostic photographs
- USGS:Butterflies of North America
- Zabulon Skipper, Butterflies of North Carolina

