Panoquina panoquin, the salt marsh skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from New York south to Florida and the Florida Keys, west along the Gulf Coast to southern Texas.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Panoquina |
| Species: | P. panoquin
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The wingspan is 35–39 mm. Adults are on wing from May to August in two generations in the north and from April to October in three generations in the south. In Florida, there are multiple generations with adults on wing from February to December. Adults feed on the flower nectar of a wide range of plants.
The larvae feed on Distichlis spicata.
References
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- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Panoquina panoquin Salt Marsh Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
- ^ Panoquina, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ Butterflies and Moths of North America
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