Gerosis bhagava

Gerosis bhagava, the common yellow-breast flat,[1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1865.[2][3][4][1][5][6][7]

Common yellowbreasted flat
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Genus:
Gerosis
Species:
G. bhagava
Binomial name
Gerosis bhagava
(Moore, 1865)
Synonyms
  • Daimio bhagava
  • Satarupa bhagava

Distribution

It is found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Myanmar.[8]

Description

In 1865, Frederic Moore described this butterfly as:

Upperside dark olive-brown : fore wing with a triangular series of three discal semitransparent white spots, the first being large and within the extremity of the cell, the second quadrate and beneath the first,the third exterior to their junction; beneath these are small black spots bordering a brownish-white streak from middle of posterior margin; a recurved series of small similar white spots before the apex : hindwing with a broad brownish-white sub-basal transverse band, bordered by a semicircular series of black spots, those exteriorly assuming the form of streaks between the veins. Abdomen with a white band Underside as above. Palpi and thorax in front beneath orange-yellow. Cilia brown.

— Frederic Moore[2]

Life history

The larvae feed on Dalbergia lanceolaria.[9]

  • Larval cell
  • Larva
  • Larva
  • Chrysalis
  • Imago (ventral view)

References
  1. Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India (2015 ed.). New Delhi: Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal and Indinov Publishing. p. 30.
  2. Moore, Frederic (1865). On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal. London: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London.
  3. Savela, Markku. "Gerosis bhagava (Moore, [1866])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  4. Inayoshi, Yutaka. "Gerosis bhagava bhagava (Moore, [1866])". Butterflies in Indo-China. Retrieved 2018-04-14.
  5. Watson, E. Y. (1891). Hesperiidae Indicae: being a reprint of descriptions of the Hesperiidae of India, Burma, and Ceylon. Madras: Vest and Company. p. 88.
  6. Evans, W. H. (1949). A Catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia, and Australia in the British Museum. London: British Museum (Natural History). Department of Entomology. p. 132.
  7. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a work now in the public domain: Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 29–30.
  8. Kehimkar, Isaac (2016). The Book of Indian Butterflies. Bombay Natural History Society. p. 72.
  9. Ravikanthachari Nitin; V.C. Balakrishnan; Paresh V. Churi; S. Kalesh; Satya Prakash; Krushnamegh Kunte (2018-04-10). "Larval host plants of the buterfies of the Western Ghats, India". Journal of Threatened Taxa. 10 (4): 11505. doi:10.11609/jott.3104.10.4.11495-11550 – via JoTT.


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