Oriens (butterfly)

Oriens, the dartlets, is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the subfamily Hesperiinae (Hesperiidae). The genus was described by William Harry Evans in 1932.

Species

 * Oriens alfurus (Plötz, 1885) – Celebes
 * Oriens californica (Scudder, 1872) – Philippines
 * Oriens fons Evans, 1949
 * Oriens paragola (de Nicéville & Martin, [1896]) – Sumatra
 * Oriens augustula (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Fiji
 * Oriens goloides (Moore, [1881]) – Ceylon, India, Nepal, South China to Malay Peninsula.
 * Oriens gola (Moore, 1877) – Ceylon, South India, Kumaon, Sikkim to Assam, Burma, Vietnam
 * Oriens concinna (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) – India (Shevaroys, Nilgiris, Palnis, Coorg)

Biology
The larvae feed on grasses including Imperata, Oryza, and Paspalum.