Salanoemia

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Salanoemia
Transactions of the Zoological Society of London (1897) Plate XVIII.jpg
Salanoemia sala (figures 15, 23)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Erionotini
Genus: Salanoemia
Eliot in Corbet & Pendlebury, 1978 [1]

Salanoemia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

  • Salanoemia sala (Hewitson, 1866) - maculate lancer
  • Salanoemia noemi (de Nicéville, 1885) India (Sikkim, Assam)
  • Salanoemia tavoyana (Evans, 1926) Burma, Thailand, North Malaysia, Borneo
  • Salanoemia fuscicornis (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) Burma, Thailand, Laos, North Malaysia (Langkawi), Borneo
  • Salanoemia shigerui Maruyama, 2000 Sumatra

Biology

The larvae feed on Palmae including Calamus subtenuis[2]

References

  1. ^ Eliot in Corbet & Pendlebury, 1978 The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Third Edition revised by J. N. Eliot Butterflies Malay Peninsula (3rd edn) : 1-578, pl. 1-55
  2. ^ Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts