Orange palm dart
The orange palm dart is an orange skipper butterfly. It lives from Indonesia to the Solomon Islands and along the coast of eastern Australia. Its caterpillars grow up on palm trees.
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Fun facts
During the day its caterpillar hides in a little tent. It ties palm leaves together with silk so they fold over each other.
Its wings measure about 40 millimetres from tip to tip.
There are nine slightly different kinds of it, living on different islands and coasts.
Most asked questions about Orange palm dart
?What does the orange palm dart caterpillar eat?
Palm leaves, from several kinds of palm trees.
?Where does the orange palm dart live?
From Indonesia to the Solomon Islands, and along the east coast of Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cephrenes augiades
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cephrenes augiades (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Donald Hobern. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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