Acerbas (skipper)

Acerbas
Acerbas nitidifasciata Elwes & Edwards, 1897 (figure 9)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Acerbas de Nicéville, 1895

Acerbas is an Indomalayan genus of skipper butterflies.

Species

Species in Acerbas are:^[1][2]

• Acerbas anthea (Hewitson, 1868) (Burma to Malaya, Java, Cambodia, Luzon)
• Acerbas azona (Hewitson, 1866) (Celebes)
• Acerbas duris (Mabille, 1883) (Philippines)
• Acerbas latefascia de Jong, 1982 (Celebes)
• Acerbas nitidifasciata Elwes & Edwards, 1897
• Acerbas sarala (de Nicéville, 1889)^[3]
• Acerbas selta Evans, 1949 (Borneo)
• Acerbas suttoni Russel, 1984 (Celebes)

Former species

• Acerbas martini (Distant and Pryer, 1887) - transferred to Cerba martini (Distant and Pryer, 1887)

Biology

Acerbas anthea larvae feed on Calamus.^[4]

• 
  Acerbas anthea in Piepers and Snellen The Rhopalocera of Java
• 
  Acerbas anthea in Rhopalocera Malayana

References

1. Brower, Andrew V. Z. (2008). "Acerbas". The Tree of Life Web Project.
2. Acerbas at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms
3. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick V. (11 October 2019). "Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 0731: 1–56.
4. 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

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Acerbas de Nicéville, 1895 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms