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Suniana lascivia (Dingy Grass-dart)

Synonyms: Pamphila lascivia; Pamphila neocles; Suniana larrakia; Suniana lasus

Wikipedia Abstract

Suniana lascivia, the dingy grass-dart or dingy dart, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia), Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The larvae feed on Panicum maximum and Imperata cylindrica species. During the day, it rests in a vertical shelter formed by joining leaves of the host plant with silk.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Imperata cylindrica (alang-alang)[1]
Megathyrsus maximus (Guinea Grass)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0