First Record of Gerosis bhagava Moore 1866 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Bangladesh Ashis Kumar DaSa Research Assistant, Wildlife Biology Branch, Department of Zoology, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka E-mail:
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Common yellow-breasted flat Gerosis bhagava (Moore, 1866) is the member of family Hesperiidae and subfamily Pyrginae. It is a widely distributed buMerfly in India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar (Kehimkar 2008). A single specimen was observed and photographed on 24th December, 2013 at Banshkhali Eco-park (21º59.497´N 91º58.931´E), ChiMagong, Bangladesh. It was siZng on bird droppings near a rocky stream. It had a dark olive brown upper forewing with a triangular patch made up of three discal semi-transparent white spots, of which two are large; beneath there are small black spots bordering a brownish white streak. Upper hindwing with a broad, transverse band, pale yellow in male and white in female. Abdomen has a white band (Kehimkar 2008). The occurrence of Common yellow-breasted flat from Bangladesh has no records in any of the recent publica]ons (Chowdhury & Hossain 2011, 2013) and other available literatures. However, Larsen (2004) suspected it presence in ChiMagong Hill tracts. The present documenta]on is the first confirmed record of Common yellow-breasted flat from Bangladesh. This finding is important to update the status and distribu]on of BuMerflies in Bangladesh. Acknowledgement The author is grateful to Prof. Dr. Mohammed Mostafa Feeroz, for his kind inspira]on and financial support during the study.
Common yellow breasted flat
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