Appearance
The wingspan is about 40 mm.
Naming
*"Cephrenes augiades augiades"⤷ "Cephrenes augiades sperthias"
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades tara" Evans, 1935
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades arua" Evans, 1935
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades bruno" Evans, 1935
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades burua" Evans, 1935
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades meeki" Evans, 1935
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades tenimbra" Evans, 1935
⤷ "Cephrenes augiades websteri" Evans, 1935
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 "Acoelorrhaphe wrightii", "Aiphanes corallina", "Bentinckia nicobarica", "Butia eriospatha", "Calamus moti", "Carpentaria acuminata", "Carpoxylon macrospermum", "Chamaedorea microspadix", "Chrysalidocarpus cabadae", "Clinostigma samoense", "Crysophila guagara", "Gaussia attenuata", "Gronophyllum microcarpum", "Gulubia macrospadix", "Heterospathe delicatula", "Heterospathe woodfordiana", "Howea belmoreana", "Livistona merrillii", "Oenocarpus", "Phoenix loureirii", "Pinanga bataanensis", "Pinanga coronata", "Pinanga kuhlii", "Pinanga merrillii", "Pritchardia beccariana", "Pritchardia maideniana", "Pritchardia minor", "Ptychosperma bleeseri", "Ptychosperma furcatum", "Ptychosperma lauterbachii", "Ptychosperma lineare", "Ptychosperma salomonense", "Ptychosperma sanderianum", "Ravenea rivularis", "Rhapis excelsa", "Rhopalostylis baueri", "Rhopalostylis sapida", "Roystonea venezuelana", "Sabal mauritiiformis", "Sabal mexicana", "Sabal parvifolia", "Sabal umbraculifera", "Sabal uresana", "Satakentia liukiuensis", "Scheelea butyracea", "Scheelea cephalotes", "Scheelea zonensis", "Syagrus amara", "Syagrus comosa", "Thrinax excelsa", "Trachycarpus martianus", "Trachycarpus wagneranus", "Veitchia merrillii" and "Verschaffeltia splendida".
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