Telicota ohara
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Telicota |
| Species: | T. ohara |
| Binomial name | |
| Telicota ohara (Plötz, 1883) | |
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Telicota ohara, the northern large darter, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the Oriental and Australian Regions, but not on the Pacific islands.
The wingspan is about 30 mm.
The larvae feed on Flagellaria indica.
Subspecies
- Telicota ohara ohara (Plötz, 1883) [1] – dark darter (Australia)
- Telicota ohara formosana Fruhstorfer, 1911[2] (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- Telicota ohara jania Evans, 1949 [3] pls. BMNH, London.(Marinduque, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros, Palawan, Polillo, Samar)
- Telicota ohara jix (Sikkim, Japan)
- Telicota ohara vedanga (Java)
- Telicota ohara jactus (Borneo)
- Telicota ohara iona (Buru)
- Telicota ohara ixion (Upper Aroa River)
References
- ↑ Plötz, C. 1882–83. Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Hesperia Aut. und ihre Arten. Entomologische Zeitung 1882: 43: 314–344, 436-456; 1883: 44: 26–64, 44: 195–233.
- ↑ Fruhstorfer, H. 1910. Neue Hesperiiden. Internationale Entomologische Zeitschrift 3: 149–150.
- ↑ Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53
- Seitz, A. 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. The Macrolepidoptera of the World 9: 1–766; 767–1201, pls 1–175.