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''Ge'' is a genus of
grass skipper Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. Description and distribution With over 2,000 described sp ...
butterflies in the family Hesperiidae described by
Lionel de Nicéville Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...
in 1895. The genus is
monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispe ...
, containing the single species ''Ge geta'', described in the same publication, and is found in Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, Batoe, Java, Burma, Thailand, Langkawi and Malaya.


References


Hesperiidae genus list
''Butterflies and Moths of the World''. Natural History Museum, London.
''Ge'' de Nicéville, 1895
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Hesperiinae Hesperiidae genera {{Hesperiinae-stub