Gerosis Explained

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 ^[1]

References

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

Notes and 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