Gerosis
| Gerosis | |
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| Gerosis celebica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Tagiadini |
| Genus: | Gerosis Mabille, 1903 |
Gerosis is an Indomalayan genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.There are six species found from China and Northeast India to Java and the Sula Archipelago east of Sulawesi.They are lowland (less than 650 metres) forest (primary or advanced secondary) butterflies. They seek sunny areas between 1 and 4 metres above ground, but females can be encountered in the shade.
Species[]
- Gerosis bhagava (Moore, [1866])
- (Plötz, 1884) Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra
- Gerosis phisara (Moore, 1884)
- (C. & R. Felder, 1862) North East India Burma, Laos, Thailand, South and Central China, Yunnan
- Huang, 2003 Yunnan
- (Eliot, 1959) Malaya, Vietnam
- (Semper, 1892) Philippines
- (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) Celebes
Biology[]
The larvae feed on Leguminosae including Abrus, Amphicarpaea, Dalbergia [1]
References[]
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Gerosis Mabille, 1903 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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- Tagiadini
- Hesperiidae genera
- Taxa named by Paul Mabille
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