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    Panoquina panoquinoides, Obscure Skipper

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    Panoquina panoquinoides, Obscure Skipper

    Freshly emerged adult

    Description: 12-14 mm. a small brown skipper with a few cream colored spots on the forewing and the underside of the hindwing. Similar species are Nastra neamathla (darker in color and no spotting) and Camaedes tripunctus (larger and lighter iun color)

     

    Habitat and Distribution: Salt marshes in most of the Keys and coastal Florida

     

    Host Plant: grasses in the Distichlis spicata and Sporobolus virginicus

     

    Natural History: This butterfly is locally abundant in salt marshes of the Keys most all year long

     

    Panoquina panoquinoides, Obscure Skipper

    Freshly emerged adult

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    Panoquina panoquinoides, Obscure Skipper larva

    Final Instar Larva

    Panoquina panoquinoides, Obscure Skipper larva

    Final Instar Larva

    Panoquina panoquinoides, Obscure Skipper pupa

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