Gerosis

Gerosis
Gerosis celebica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Pyrginae
Tribe: Tagiadini
Genus: Gerosis
Mabille, 1903

Gerosis is an Indomalayan genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

  • Gerosis bhagava (Moore, [1866])
  • Gerosis limax (Plötz, 1884) Burma, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra
  • Gerosis phisara (Moore, 1884)
  • Gerosis sinica (C. & R. Felder, 1862) North East India Burma, Laos, Thailand, South and Central China, Yunnan
  • Gerosis yuani Huang, 2003 Yunnan
  • Gerosis tristis (Eliot, 1959) Malaya, Vietnam
  • Gerosis corona (Semper, 1892) Philippines
  • Gerosis celebica (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) Celebes

Biology

The larvae feed on Leguminosae including Abrus, Amphicarpaea, Dalbergia [1]

References

  1. ↑ Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts


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