Livistona nitida Rodd – Carnarvon Fan Palm - Australia: Queensland Livistona saribus (Lour.) Merr. ex A. Chev. - Indochina, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Philippines; naturalized in Polynesia, China: Guangdong, Yunnan Livistona speciosa Kurz - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Bangladesh, southern China Livistona tahanensis Becc. - Pahang in Malaysia Livistona victoriae Rodd - Australia: Western Australia, Northern Territory Formerly placed here Pholidocarpus kingianus (Becc.) Ridl. (Livistona kingiana) Pritchardia gaudichaudii (Mart.) H.Wendl. (Livistona gaudichaudii) Pritchardia martii (Gaudich.) H.Wendl. (Livistona martii) Saribus brevifolius (Dowe & Mogea) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona brevifolia) Saribus chocolatinus (Dowe) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona chocolatina) Saribus merrillii (Becc.) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona merrillii, L. whitfordii, L. blancoi) Saribus papuanus (Becc.) Kuntze - (Livistona papuana) Saribus rotundifolius (Lam.) Blume (Livistona rotundifolia, L. altissima, L. microcarpa, L. mindorensis) Saribus surru (Dowe & Barfod) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona surru) Saribus tothur (Dowe & Barfod) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona tothur) Saribus woodfordii (Ridl.) C.D.Bacon & W.J.Baker - (Livistona woodfordii, L. beccariana) Ecology Livistona species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species. In Australia the species Cephrenes trichopepla and C. augiades sperthias have been recorded on a number of different Livistona species, in Asia Elymnias hypermnestra and likely Gangara thyrsis feed on Livistona. A number of other Lepidoptera which do not naturally occur to the native range of the genus Livistona have been recorded feeding on these palms, including Batrachedra arenosella (recorded on L. subglobosa), Brassolis astyra astyra, Opsiphanes cassina, O. invirae and Paysandisia archon. P. archon is a giant day-flying moth of which the caterpillars known to attack the piths of a number of these palm species, along with many other genera, at least in Europe, where neither the moth nor palms are native. It can kill the palm. It prefers genera of palm with more hairy trunks like Trachycarpus, Trithrinax or Chamaerops. References External links Arecaceae genera