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Summary
Poanes viator, the broad-winged skipper, is a skipper butterfly found in North America.
Tags
harmless
Scientific classification
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Distribution
It ranges from Texas to Florida and along the east coast to Massachusetts and west to southern Quebec and Ontario to the Dakotas.
Host plants
Larva feed on Carex sp. and Phragmites australis.