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Taractrocera ina (Ina Grassdart)

Synonyms: Taractrocera iola

Wikipedia Abstract

Taractrocera ina, the ina grassdart or no-brand grass-dart, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in northern, central and eastern Australia in scattered localities, south to western New South Wales and Papua New Guinea. The wingspan is about 20 mm. The larvae feed on Cymbopogon citrata, Paspalum urvillei, Urochloa decumbens, Sorghum verticilliflorum, Paspalum conjugatum, Panicum maximum and Oryza sativa. It constructs a tubular shelter made of the leaves of its host plant.
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1Jorrit 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.
2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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