Telicota ohara

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.

Telicota ohara
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Telicota
Species:	T. ohara
Binomial name
Telicota ohara (Plötz, 1883)
Synonyms
Hesperia ohara Plötz, 1883

The wingspan is about 30 mm.

The larvae feed on Flagellaria indica.

Subspecies

• Telicota ohara ohara (Plötz, 1883) – dark darter (Australia)
• Telicota ohara formosana Fruhstorfer, 1911 (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
• Telicota ohara jania Evans, 1949 (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)

External links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Australian Insects