Suastus minutus, the small palm bob, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.

It is found in the Indomalayan realm - south India, Sikkim to Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Vietnam and (S. m. flemingi Eliot, 1973) Malaya.

Hindwing with the costal space broadly suffused with brown, the re.st of the wing; blue grey, sparsely covered with minute brown scales, thickest towards the outer margin, a small black spot at the end of the cell, a large one in the middle of the interno-median interspace, with a spot or two, more or less obsolescent, above it, a black spot at the anal angle, with one or two obscure spots on the margin in the interspaces above it.

Antennae black, with whitish dots on the underside; palpi, head and body blackish brown above, grey on the underside, legs brown above, grey beneath.

Female like the male, but with comparatively longer forewing; on the underside, the whitish mark in the middle of the interno-median interspace is large, the grey portion of the hindwing is paler, the anal spot generally absent.