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Cephrenes
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Cephrenes

Cephrenes is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The genus is shared between the Indomalayan ecozone and the Australasian ecozone. Larvae feed on a variety of palms (Arecaceae) especially Cocos nucifera (coconut), and Calamus (rattan).

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Orange Palm Dart

speciesCephrenes augiades

Yellow Palm Dart

speciesCephrenes trichopepla

Plain Palm-Dart

speciesCephrenes acalle

Cephrenes shortlandica

speciesCephrenes shortlandica

Cephrenes chrysozona

speciesCephrenes chrysozona

Melanesian Palm-dart

speciesCephrenes moseleyi

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 201916.