Cephrenes augiades

Cephrenes augiades
Cephrenes augiades sperthias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Cephrenes
Species:	C. augiades
Binomial name
Cephrenes augiades (C Felder, 1860)
Synonyms
Hesperia augiadesFelder, 1860 Hesperia palmarumFelder, 1862 Hesperia sperthiasFelder, 1862 Hesperia macleayiPlötz, 1883 Corone ismenoidesMabille, 1878 Pamphila ulamaButler, 1870

Cephrenes augiades, the orange palm dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Indonesia to the Solomons.

The wingspan is about 40 mm.

Food

The larvae of subspecies sperthias feed on Archontophoenix , Livistona and Phoenix species. During the day it hides within a shelter made by using silk to join fronds of its host plant, which fold together and bend across each other naturally.

Other recorded food plants include:

• Acoelorraphe wrightii
• Aiphanes corallina
• Bentinckia nicobarica
• Butia eriospatha
• Calamus moti
• Carpentaria acuminata
• Carpoxylon macrospermum
• Chamaedorea microspadix
• Chrysalidocarpus cabadae
• Clinostigma samoense
• Crysophila guagara
• Gaussia attenuata
• Gronophyllum microcarpum
• Gulubia macrospadix
• Heterospathe delicatula
• Heterospathe woodfordiana
• Howea belmoreana
• Livistona merrillii
• Oenocarpus
• Phoenix loureirii
• Pinanga bataanensis
• Pinanga coronata
• Pinanga kuhlii
• Pinanga merrillii
• Pritchardia beccariana
• Pritchardia maideniana
• Pritchardia minor
• Ptychosperma bleeseri
• Ptychosperma furcatum
• Ptychosperma lauterbachii
• Ptychosperma lineare
• Ptychosperma salomonense
• Ptychosperma sanderianum
• Ravenea rivularis
• Rhapis excelsa
• Rhopalostylis baueri
• Rhopalostylis sapida
• Roystonea venezuelana
• Sabal mauritiiformis
• Sabal mexicana
• Sabal parvifolia
• Sabal umbraculifera
• Sabal uresana
• Satakentia liukiuensis
• Scheelea butyracea
• Scheelea cephalotes
• Scheelea zonensis
• Syagrus amara
• Syagrus comosa
• Thrinax excelsa
• Trachycarpus martianus
• Trachycarpus wagneranus
• Veitchia merrillii
• Verschaffeltia splendida

Subspecies

• Cephrenes augiades augiades
• Cephrenes augiades sperthias(C. Felder, 1862) (south-eastern coast of New South Wales and the northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland)
• Cephrenes augiades taraEvans, 1935 (Batchian)
• Cephrenes augiades aruaEvans, 1935 (Papua)
• Cephrenes augiades brunoEvans, 1935 (Papua)
• Cephrenes augiades buruaEvans, 1935 (Buru)
• Cephrenes augiades meekiEvans, 1935 (Papua)
• Cephrenes augiades tenimbraEvans, 1935
• Cephrenes augiades websteriEvans, 1935 (New Britain)

External links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Australian Insects