Description

• Common Name : Dark Palm Dart
• Scientific Name : Telicota ancilla (Moore)
• Family : HESPERIIDAE
• Wingspan : 34-36mm
• Colour : Black butterfly with orange bands on the forewings.
• Habit : Flies very strongly and swiftly. Basks in the morning, sitting low on the grass-blades or bushes. Its proboscis is falirly long and therefore it has access to flowers with long corolla tubes, such as Andrographis, Lantana, Tridax etc.
• Larval Host Plants : Oryza sativa, Bamboos, Saccharum sp.
• Location : Throughout West Bengal

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