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:
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
Verschaffeltia splendida
Subspecies
Cephrenes augiades augiades
Cephrenes augiades sperthias (C. Felder, 1862) (south-eastern coast of New South Wales and the northern Gulf and north-eastern coast of Queensland) Cephrenes augiades tara Evans, 1935 (Batchian) Cephrenes augiades arua Evans, 1935 (Papua) Cephrenes augiades bruno Evans, 1935 (Papua) Cephrenes augiades burua Evans, 1935 (Buru) Cephrenes augiades meeki Evans, 1935 (Papua) Cephrenes augiades tenimbra Evans, 1935 Cephrenes augiades websteri Evans, 1935 (New Britain)