Telicota

Telicota
Telicota bambusae
Scientific classification
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)
• Evans, 1934
• Telicota anisodesma Lower, 1911
• Evans, 1934
• Telicota augias (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Telicota bambusae (Moore, 1878)
• Evans, 1949
• Telicota brachydesma Lower, 1908
• Parsons, 1986
• Parsons, 1986
• Telicota colon (Fabricius, 1775)
• Evans, 1949
• Telicota eurotas (C. Felder, 1860)
• Telicota eurychlora Lower, 1908
• Evans, 1949
• Eliot, 1959
• Evans, 1934
• Evans, 1949
• Evans, 1934
• Evans, 1949
• (Mabille, 1878)
• Telicota mesoptis Lower, 1911
• Parsons, 1986
• Telicota ohara (Plötz, 1883)
• Fruhstorfer, 1911
• Evans, 1949
• Parsons, 1986
• Fruhstorfer, 1911
• Swinhoe, 1907
• Evans, 1934
• Evans, 1949

External links[]

• Telicota at funet
• Images representing Telicota at Bold

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References[]

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

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