Telicota colon explained

Telicota colon, commonly known as the pale palm dart or common palm dart, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from India to Australia.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Description

The larvae are known to feed on Bambusa vulgaris, Phragmites karka, Oryza, Saccharum and Ochlandra travancorica.^{[5] [6]}

Subspecies

• Telicota colon colon
• Telicota colon argeus (Plötz, 1883) – pale darter (south-eastern coast of New South Wales, the northern Gulf and northern coast of the Northern Territory, the northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland and the north-western coast of Western Australia, Irian Jaya, Maluku and Papua New Guinea)
• Telicota colon vaja Corbet, 1942 (Philippines to Sumatra and to Timor)
• Telicota colon vega Evans, 1949 (Papua New Guinea)
• Telicota colon stinga (Malacca)
• Telicota colon zara (St. Mathias)

External links

• Australian Insects
• Australian Faunal Directory

Notes and References

1. Book: A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India . Varshney . R.K. . Smetacek. Peter. Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing . 2015. 978-81-929826-4-9. New Delhi. 64–65. 10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164.
2. Web site: Savela . Markku . Telicota colon (Fabricius, 1775) . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . July 3, 2018.
3. Book: Watson, E. Y. . Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon . Edward Yerbury Watson. Vest and Company. 1891. Madras. 55.
4. Book: Evans, W. H. . A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum . William Harry Evans . British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. 1949. London. 392.
5. Kalesh, S & S K Prakash. 2007. Additions of the larval host plants of butterflies of the Western Ghats, Kerala, Southern India (Rhopalocera, Lepidoptera): Part 1. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 2. 235–238. 104.
6. 2018-04-10. Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India. Ravikanthachari Nitin. V.C. Balakrishnan. Paresh V. Churi. S. Kalesh. Satya Prakash. Krushnamegh Kunte. Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10. 4. 11495–11550. 10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550. free.