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HESPERIIDAE;

COELIANIDAE

(Awls)

One of several smallish skipper butterfly subfamilies.  The subfamily is restricted to the Old World tropics. It comprises the most basal living lineage of skippers. In Coeliadinae the second segment of the palpae is erect and densely scaled, and the third segment is perpendicular to it, long, slender and without scales.

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They are predominantly brown in colour. They fold their wings upright when resting and are usually active during twilight hours.

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