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Telicota bambusae
With size no more than your average thumb (wingspan of 35-40 mm), the dark palm-dart is a grass skitter butterfly of the Hesperiidae family distributed in India, Sri Lanka, and Peninsular Malaysia. Its black-bordered wings are broad and pointed with basal yellow streak on hindwing confined to a terminal spot at the end of the cell. Its larval host plants include saccharum and various species of bamboos.
Gunung Putri, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia - Found in a private school camping grounds/facility, skittering between some relatively dense roadside foliage.
It could also be T. colon, T. augias, C. augiades, heck, even P. confucius. It could also be a subspecies of any of those species. Honestly, I don't know .-.
Spotted on Aug 30, 2022
Submitted on Aug 30, 2022
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I just realized that by editing the spotting and publishing it the site doesn't overwrite the post and instead just post another one so it just clogs the site.
if that's the case, well then, I whole-heartedly apologize for anyone who stumbled upon this spotting confused or annoyed because it was posted three times consecutively ;-;