Suastus
Sign in to saveSuastus, whose members are called palm bobs, is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
Taxonomy · GBIF
Indian Palm Bob
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyHesperiidae
Observations8,480
Groupinsecta
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Suastus, whose members are called palm bobs, is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae.
==Species== Suastus gremius (Fabricius, 1798) South India, Northwest Himalayas to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan, Hong Kong, Formosa, Langkawi, Malaya, Sri Lanka, Sumba, Indian palm bob Suastus minuta (Moore, 1877) South India, Sikkim to Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Vietnam and Malaya, Small palm bob Suastus everyx (Mabille, 1883) Burma, Thailand, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, White palm bob Suastus migreus (Semper, 1892) Philippines