Oriens, the dartlets, is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the subfamily Hesperiinae (Hesperiidae). The genus was described by William Harry Evans in 1932.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Erionotini |
| Genus: | Oriens Evans, 1932 |
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Species
edit- 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)
Biology
editThe larvae feed on grasses including Imperata, Oryza, and Paspalum.[1]
References
edit- Oriens Evans, 1932" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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