Oriens (butterfly)

Oriens
	Oriens concinna figure 20
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Oriens; Evans, 1932
Synonyms
	Nicevillea Evans, 1926 (preocc. Nicevillea Hampson, 1895);

Oriens, the dartlets, is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by William Harry Evans in 1932.

Species

Oriens alfurus (Plötz, 1885) Celebes
Oriens californica (Scudder, 1872) Philippines
Oriens fons Evans, 1949
Oriens paragola (de Nicéville & Martin, [1896]) Sumatra
Oriens augustula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) Fiji
Oriens goloides (Moore, [1881]) Ceylon, India, Nepal, South China to Malay Peninsula.
Oriens gola (Moore, 1877) Ceylon, South India, Kumaon, Sikkim to Assam, Burma, Vietnam
Oriens concinna (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) India (Shevaroys, Nilgiris, Palnis, Coorg)

The larvae feed on Gramineae including Imperata , Oryza, Paspalum.^[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

Oriens Evans, 1932" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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