Dark-dusted Palm Dart

Telicota hilda

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae

Telicota is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It is a tropical Asian genus, shared between the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm, and ranging from Sri Lanka to Australia and New Guinea. Larval foodplants include Palmae and Gramineae - Miscanthus sinensis, Pennisetum purpureum, Oryza sativa (rice), Saccharum officinarum (sugar cane), Imperata cylindrica (lalang grass), Cocos nucifera (coconut) and Calamus (rattan).

Distribution

Dark-dusted Palm Dart — (c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ian Dugdale · CC-BY

Loading map…

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ian Dugdale, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ian Dugdale · CC-BY DescriptionTelicota, Wikipedia contributors

Dark-dusted Palm Dart

More from the same family

Bicoloured Paradise Skipper

Bismarck’s Paradise Skipper

Paradise Skipper

Spotted Paradise Skipper

Zambezi Paradise Skipper

Magpie Flat

White Palmer

Acerbas azona