Bug FAQOcola Skipper
Panoquina ocola · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Hesperiidae
Also called: Long-windged Skipper
The Ocola Skipper has a wingspan of about 35 to 43 millimeters. It lives from Paraguay north through tropical America, the West Indies, and reaches south Texas, with occasional strays farther north. Its caterpillars feed on rice, sugarcane, and a wetland grass species.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Wingspan ranges from 35 to 43 mm.
Source: Wikipedia
What it eats
Larvae eat rice (Oryza sativa), sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), and the grass Hymenachne amplexicaulis.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
Found from Paraguay north through tropical America, the West Indies, and south Texas; strays reach as far north as Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, and New York.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 34 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Alabama.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Hesperiidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoquina_ocola
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-22 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.