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Telicota Moore, [1881]
Palm Darts
Telicota Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 169 (misidentified original TS Papilio augias Linnaeus), TS: Papilio colon Fabricius
Astychus ; [BIR, 478 (Astycus?)]

Larva on Oryza sativa, Saccharum officinarum, Imperata cylindrica, Cocos nucifera, Calamus [BMP]

Telicota anisodesma Lower, 1911
AU. See [About maps] Telicota anisodesma, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Larva on Leptaspis banksii?, Flagellaria indica K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

Telicota ancilla (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
Queensland Pamphila ancilla Herrich-Schäffer, 1869; Stettin. ent. Ztg. 30 (1-3): 79, no. 59, TL: Rockhampton
Pamphila olivescens Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
Telicota baudina Evans, 1949
Telicota ancilla, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Telicota ancilla ; [BOW: pl. 189, f. 11 (text)]

Larva on Imperata cylindrica, Paspalum urvillei, Sorghum halepense, S. spp. K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

T. a. horsha Evans
Telicota ancilla horsha ; [MRS, 743]
Telicota augias (Linnaeus, 1763)
Ceylon, India, Burma, AU. See [About maps] Pale Palm Dart
Papilio augias Linnaeus, 1763; Amoenitates Acad., 6: 410
Pamphila krefftii Macleay, 1866
kreffti Masters, 1873; (misspelling)
Telicota argilus Waterhouse, 1933
Telicota augias, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Telicota augias ; [BOW: pl. 189, f. 9]; [MRS, 742]

Larva on Oryza sativa K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

T. a. augias
Telicota augias augias ; [BMP: 383, pl. 59, f. 46-48]
Telicota brachydesma Lower, 1908
AU. See [About maps] Telicota brachydesma, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Larva on Leptaspis banksii K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

Telicota eurotas (C. Felder, 1860)
AU. See [About maps] Pamphila eurotas C. Felder, 1860
Telicota laconia Waterhouse, 1937
Telicota eurotas, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Larva on Scleria polycarpa K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

T. e. eurychlora Lower, 1908
Telicota colon (Fabricius, 1775)
AU. See [About maps] Common Palm Dart
Papilio colon Fabricius, 1775; Syst. Ent.: 531, no. 376, TL: India
Telicota colon, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Telicota colon ; [MRS, 742]

Larva on (reared on) Sorghum verticilliflorum K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

T. c. argeus (Plötz, 1883)
Hesperia argeus Plötz, 1883

Larva on Miscanthus sinensis var. strictus Dunn, 1995, Victorian Ent. 25 (5): -

T. c. stinga Evans, 1949
N.Vietnam Telicota stinga Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 392, no. L7.3, TL: Malacca, Malaysia
Telicota colon stinga ; [BMP: 384, pl. 59, f. 44-45]; [MRS, 742]
Telicota mesoptis Lower, 1911
AU. See [About maps] Telicota mesoptis, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]

Larva on Sorghum verticilliflorum K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

Telicota hilda Eliot, 1959
Telicota hilda Eliot, 1959; Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 7 (8): 390, pl. 10, f. 14
Telicota hilda ; [BMP: 384, pl. 59, f. 49-51]
Telicota ohara (Plötz, 1883)
-. See [About maps] Hesperia ohara Plötz, 1883; Stett. ent. Ztg 44 (4-6): 226
Telicota ohara, Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia [Don Herbison-Evans]
 Telicota ohara ; [MRS, 743]
T. o. formosana Fruhstorfer
Telicota ohara formosana ; [MRS, 743]

Larva on Setaria palmifolia, Cynodon doctylon [MRS]

T. o. jix Evans, 1949
S.Yunnan, ... Telicota jix Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 400, no. L13
Telicota ohara jix ; [BMP: 384, pl. 59, f. 55-57]
Telicota linna Evans, 1949
S.Burma, Indo-China, Malaysia. See [About maps] Linna Palm Dart
Telicota linna Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 396, no. L7.8, TL: Sikkim
Telicota linna ; [MRS, 743]; [BOW: pl. 189, f. 11]; [BMP: 384, pl. 59, f. 52-54]
Telicota besta Evans, 1949
Besta Palm Dart
Telicota besta Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 396, no. L8, TL: Hainan, China
T. b. besta
Telicota linna besta ; [MRS, 743]
T. b. bina Evans, 1949
Telicota bina Evans, 1949; Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: 396, bi, L7.8
Telicota besta bina ; [BMP: 383, pl. 59, f. 58-60]
Telicota bambusae (Moore, 1878)
Dark Palm Dart
Pamphila bambusae Moore, 1878; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3): 691, pl. 45, f. 11-12, TL: "Calcutta"
T. b. bambusae
Telicota bambusae bambusae ; [BMP]
T. b. horisha Evans, 1934
Telicota paceka Fruhstorfer, 1911
Telicota pythias Mabille²
Ceylon, India, Burma. See [About maps] Dark Palm Dart
Telicota pythias ; [BIR, 478]

A form of Telicota ancilla?

Telicota subha Fruhstorfer, 1911
Telicota kezia Evans²
New Britain. See [About maps] Telicota kezia ; [BOW: pl. 189, f. 10]

Unknown taxa
Telicota vaja Corbet, 1942; Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 11 (6): 94
Telicota naranata Distant, 1886; Rhopalocera Malayana (19, 20): 382, (pl. 35, f. 13) (synonymy: Moore MS]
Telicota bunga Evans, 1934; Entomologist 67 (9): 208 (part 5)

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References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BIR]
Wynter-Blyth, M. A., 1957; Butterflies of the Indian Region; (1982 Reprint)
[BMP]
Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2
[BOW]
Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
[Don Herbison-Evans]
and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans
[MRS]
Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
[²]
This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:
Corbet, 1942
The Linnaean Names of Indo-Australian Rhopalocera (3) Proc. R. Soc. Lond. (B) 11 (6): 91-94
Dunn, 1995
Biological notes on some eastern Australian butterflies Victorian Ent. 25 (5): 85-92
K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991
Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Pushlished by authors, Melbourne Review Austr. Butts. (1-4):
Eliot, 1959
New or little known Butterflies from Malaya Bull. Br. Mus. nat. Hist. (Ent.) 7 (8): 369[?382]-391, 7 figs., pl. 10
Evans, 1934
Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: Description of new Genera, Species and Subspecies Entomologist 67 (2): 33-36 (part 1), (3): 61-65 (part 2), (7): 141-151 (part 3), (8): 181-184 (part 4), (9): 206-209 (part 5), (10): 231-234 (part 6)
Evans, 1949
A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus.: xix, 502pp, pl. 1-53
Fabricius, 1775
Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, Adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Syst. Ent.: 832pp
Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
Neue Schmetterlinge aus dem Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg beschrieben Stettin. ent. Ztg. 30 (1-3): 65-80
Linnaeus, 1763
in Johansson (Thesis), Centuria Insectorum Amoenitates Acad., 6: -,(121) 384-415
Moore, 1878
Descriptions of new Asiatic Hesperidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3): 686-695
Moore, [1881]
The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 1 (1): 1-40, pl. 1-18, (2): 41-80, pl. 19-36, (3): 81-136, pl. 37-54, (4): 137-190, pl. 55-71
Plötz, 1883
Die Hesperiinen -- Gattung Hesperia Aut. und ihre Arten. (3) & (4) Stett. ent. Ztg 44 (1-3): 26-64, (4-6): 195-233

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