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Telicota

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

Telicota is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. A tropical Asian genus, shared between the Indomalayan ecozone and the Australasian ecozone 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).


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