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Suniana sunias (Wide-brand Grass-dart)

Synonyms: Ocybadistes yashtivana; Padraona nola; Pamphila rectivitta; Pamphila sunias; Suniana sauda

Wikipedia Abstract

Suniana sunias is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Indonesia (Papua, Maluku), Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory and Queensland), Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The wingspan is about 25 mm. The larvae feed on Sorghum verticilliflorum, Paspalum urvillei, Panicum maximum, Leersia hexandra and other Leersia species. They rest in a shelter made from blades of their host plant joined with silk.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Leersia hexandra (southern cutgrass)[1]
Megathyrsus maximus (Guinea Grass)[2]
Paspalum urvillei (Vasey grass)[1]
Sorghum arundinaceum (broom corn)[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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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