title: Telicota
text: # Telicota
  
  Telicota is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It is a tropical Asian genus, shared between the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm, and ranging from Sri Lanka to Australia and New Guinea. Larval foodplants include Palmae and Gramineae - Miscanthus sinensis, Pennisetum purpureum, Oryza sativa (rice), Saccharum officinarum (sugar cane), Imperata cylindrica (lalang grass), Cocos nucifera (coconut) and Calamus (rattan).
  
  ## Species
  
  * Telicota ancilla (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)
  * Telicota angiana Evans, 1934
  * Telicota anisodesma Lower, 1911
  * Telicota aroa Evans, 1934
  * Telicota augias (Linnaeus, 1763)
  * Telicota bambusae (Moore, 1878)
  * Telicota besta Evans, 1949
  * Telicota brachydesma Lower, 1908
  * Telicota brandti Parsons, 1986
  * Telicota bulwa Parsons, 1986
  * Telicota colon (Fabricius, 1775)
  * Telicota doba Evans, 1949
  * Telicota eurotas (C. Felder, 1860)
  * Telicota eurychlora Lower, 1908
  * Telicota gervasa Evans, 1949
  * Telicota hilda Eliot, 1959
  * Telicota kaimana Evans, 1934
  * Telicota kezia Evans, 1949
  * Telicota laruta Evans, 1934
  * Telicota linna Evans, 1949
  * Telicota melanion (Mabille, 1878)
  * Telicota mesoptis Lower, 1911
  * Telicota mimena Parsons, 1986
  * Telicota ohara (Plötz, 1883)
  * Telicota paceka Fruhstorfer, 1911
  * Telicota sadra Evans, 1949
  * Telicota sadrella Parsons, 1986
  * Telicota subha Fruhstorfer, 1911
  * Telicota ternatensis Swinhoe, 1907
  * Telicota torsa Evans, 1934
  * Telicota vinta Evans, 1949
  