Baoris

Baoris
Baoris farri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Baorini
Genus:	Baoris Moore, 1881

Baoris is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.It is found in the Indomalayan realm

Species

• Baoris farri (Moore, 1878)
• Baoris leechii Elwes & Edwards, 1897 West and Central China
• Baoris longistigmata Huang, 1999
• Baoris oceia (Hewitson, 1868)
• Baoris pagana (de Nicéville, 1887)
• Baoris penicillata Moore, [1881] India, Ceylon, India, Thailand, Laos.
• Baoris chapmani Evans, 1937 Burma, Bangladesh
• Baoris unicolor Moore, [1884]

Biology

The larvae feed on Gramineae including Dinochloa, Bambusa, Dendrocalamus, Ochlandra, Saccharum, Oryza

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Baoris Moore, 1881 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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