Telicota

Telicota
Telicota bambusae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Taractrocerini
Genus:	Telicota Moore, [1881]

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).

Species

• Telicota ancilla (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
• Telicota angiana Evans, 1934
• Telicota anisodesma Lower, 1911
• Telicota aroa Evans, 1934
• Telicota augias (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Telicota bambusae (Moore, 1878)
• Telicota besta Evans, 1949
• Telicota brachydesma Lower, 1908
• Telicota brandti Parsons, 1986
• Telicota bulwa Parsons, 1986
• Telicota colon (Fabricius, 1775)
• Telicota doba Evans, 1949
• Telicota eurotas (C. Felder, 1860)
• Telicota eurychlora Lower, 1908
• Telicota gervasa Evans, 1949
• Telicota hilda Eliot, 1959
• Telicota kaimana Evans, 1934
• Telicota kezia Evans, 1949
• Telicota laruta Evans, 1934
• Telicota linna Evans, 1949
• Telicota melanion (Mabille, 1878)
• Telicota mesoptis Lower, 1911
• Telicota mimena Parsons, 1986
• Telicota ohara (Plötz, 1883)
• Telicota paceka Fruhstorfer, 1911
• Telicota sadra Evans, 1949
• Telicota sadrella Parsons, 1986
• Telicota subha Fruhstorfer, 1911
• Telicota ternatensis Swinhoe, 1907
• Telicota torsa Evans, 1934
• Telicota vinta Evans, 1949

External links

• Telicota at funet
• Images representing Telicota at Bold

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database