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title: "Ocola Skipper"
description: "Panoquina ocola — Insects & spiders. Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/ocola-skipper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Ocola Skipper

> Panoquina ocola — Insects & spiders. Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.

- Scientific name: *Panoquina ocola*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 13904
- Wikidata: [Q7131481](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7131481)
- iNaturalist taxon: [147931](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/147931)

## Names

- en: Ocola Skipper
- es: Saltarina de ala larga café

## Countries with the most observations

US (11808), MX (173), AR (68), BR (62), CA (43), DO (20), TT (15), HN (11), CO (10), GF (10), BZ (6), PA (6)

## Summary

Panoquina ocola, the ocola skipper or long-winged skipper, is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Paraguay north through tropical America and the West Indies to south Texas, and strays occur north to southeast Arizona, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, southern Ontario, and New York.
The wingspan is 35–43 mm.
The larvae feed on Oryza sativa, Saccharum officinarum and Hymenachne amplexicaulis.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoquina_ocola

## Photo

![Ocola Skipper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/ocola-skipper/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen Lewis · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/321446338

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/ocola-skipper?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).