Cephrenes augiades

Cephrenes augiades (Felder, 1860) a. male b. female c. larva d. pupa

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Taractrocerini
Genus: Cephrenes
Species: Cephrenes augiades
Subspecies: C. a. arua –C. a. augiades –C. a. bruno –C. a. burua –C. a. meeki –C. a. sperthias –C. a. tara –C. a. tenimbra –C. a. tugela –C. a. websteri
Name

Cephrenes augiades C. Felder, 1860.

Type Locality: Indonesia, Maluku, Ambon.

Holotype: male, BMNH.
Synonymy

Hesperia augiades Felder, C., 1860: 461; Felder, C. & R., [1867]: Pl.LXXII Fig.5.
Telicota augiades (Felder); Seitz, 1927: 1080.
Cephrenes augiades augiades (Felder); Evans, 1949: 409; Bridges, 1994: IX.15; Parsons, 1998: 182.

References

Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus-Group and Species-Group Names of the Riodinidae & Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page.
Felder, C. 1860. Lepidopterorum Amboinensium species novae diagnosibus. S-B. Akad. Wiss. Wien 40(11): 447–468. BHL Reference page.
Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Lepidoptera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls. Text. Plates. Reference page.
Hopffer, C., 1874. Beitrag zur Lepidopteren-Fauna von Celebes. Entomologische Zeitung. 35: 17–47. BHL. Reference page.
Parsons, M.J. 1998. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea xvi+736pp., 136 pls. Academic Press, London, ISBN 0125455550. Reference page.
Seitz, A. 1912–1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 1–766; 767–1201, pls 1–175. Reference page.

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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:

Acoelorrhaphe 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 tara Evans, 1935 (Batchian)
Cephrenes augiades arua Evans, 1935 (Papua)
Cephrenes augiades bruno Evans, 1935 (Papua)
Cephrenes augiades burua Evans, 1935 (Buru)
Cephrenes augiades meeki Evans, 1935 (Papua)
Cephrenes augiades tenimbra Evans, 1935
Cephrenes augiades websteri Evans, 1935 (New Britain)