Oriens gola, the common dartlet, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Sri Lanka and India (Kumaon, Sikkim, Assam) to Burma, Thailand, Vietnam,[1] Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo and Sumatra.[2]
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| Oriens gola in Moore, 1877 (figure 9) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Oriens |
| Species: | O. gola
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| Binomial name | |
| Oriens gola (Moore, 1877)
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The wingspan is about 22–27 mm.[3]
The larvae feed on Imperata and Paspalum species, as well as Ottochloa nodosa.
Subspecies edit
- Oriens gola gola
- Oriens gola nipata (Fruhstorfer, 1911) (Sumnba)
- Oriens gola pseudolus (Mabille, 1883) (Vietnam)
- Oriens gola yunnana Lee, 1962
References edit
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