Eetion elia
Species of butterfly
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Eetion elia, the white-spot palmer, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1866. It is found in Malaysia and Singapore, as well as on Sumatra and Borneo.[1] The habitat consists of fringes of secondary forests. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Eetion, erected by Lionel de Nicéville in 1895.
| Eetion elia | |
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| In William Lucas Distant's Rhopalocera Malayana (figure 25) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Genus: | Eetion de Nicéville, 1895 |
| Species: | E. elia |
| Binomial name | |
| Eetion elia (Hewitson, [1866]) | |
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The wingspan is about 38 mm.This genus is established for a species separated from all its allies by a row of transparent spots in the hindwing (right across the centre of the hindwing). The white median band of the hindwing is narrow. The white of the anal-marginal portion of the hindwing above is immediately adjoining to the transverse row of hyaline spots.[2]
The larvae probably feed on Cleistanthus sumatranus.[3]
