| Common yellowbreasted flat | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Gerosis |
| Species: | G. bhagava |
| Binomial name | |
| Gerosis bhagava (Moore, 1865) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gerosis bhagava, also known as the common yellow-breast flat, [1] is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. [2] [3] [4] [1] [5] [6] [7]
It is found in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Myanmar. [8]
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.
The larvae feed on Dalbergia lanceolaria . [9]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain : Swinhoe, Charles (1912–1913). Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 29–30.  | This Hesperiidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |