Cephrenes augiades, the orange palm dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Indonesia to the Solomons.
The wingspan is about 40 mm.
Food
The larvae of subspecies sperthias feed on Archontophoenix, Livistona and Phoenix species. During the day it hides within a shelter made by using silk to join fronds of its host plant, which fold together and bend across each other naturally.
Other recorded food plants include:
Subspecies
- Cephrenes augiades augiades
- Cephrenes augiades sperthias <small>(C. Felder, 1862)</small> (south-eastern coast of New South Wales and the northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland)
- Cephrenes augiades tara <small>Evans, 1935</small> (Batchian)
- Cephrenes augiades arua <small>Evans, 1935</small> (Papua)
- Cephrenes augiades bruno <small>Evans, 1935</small> (Papua)
- Cephrenes augiades burua <small>Evans, 1935</small> (Buru)
- Cephrenes augiades meeki <small>Evans, 1935</small> (Papua)
- Cephrenes augiades tenimbra <small>Evans, 1935</small>
- Cephrenes augiades websteri <small>Evans, 1935</small> (New Britain)
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