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Crops > Plantation crops > Coconut & oil palm > Insects > Hesperiidae, Sri Lanka

Crops Plantation crops Coconut & oil palm Insects Hesperiidae, Sri Lanka

Hesperiidae spp.

March 2007. Help was requested from Sri Lanka to identify the specimen illustrated. It was thought to be a species of Elymnias. The larva of this butterfly was found to be a voracious feeder on the leaflets of coconut seedlings.

Members thought it was a species of Telicota (Hesperiidae) or perhaps Cephrenes palmarum (Felder, 1862); Hesperiidae; see: theskippersofkerala.blogspot.com/search/label/Telicota