• Source: Gerosis

    • 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])
    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


    References



    Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
    Gerosis Mabille, 1903 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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