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Telicota augias
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Telicota
Species:	T. augias
Binomial name
Telicota augias (Linnaeus, 1763)
Synonyms
Papilio augiasLinnaeus, 1763 Pamphila krefftiiMacleay, 1866 Telicota krefftii argilusWaterhouse, 1933

Telicota augias, the bright-orange darter, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Myanmar, Indonesia and the Philippines.

The wingspan is about 30 mm.It is similar to Telicota bambusae differing in that the black margin of the fore wing above is crossed by the yellow veins and being thus divided into single marginal spots. ^[1]

The larvae feed on Flagellaria indica .

Subspecies

• Telicota augias augias (Burma to Java and Borneo)
• Telicota augias florina (southern Flores)
• Telicota augias krefftii(Macleay, 1866) – Krefft's darter (the northern Gulf and northern coast of the Northern Territory, the northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland and the northern coast of Western Australia)
• Telicota augias pythias (Philippines)

External links

• Australian Insects
• Australian Faunal Directory

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