Bibasis

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Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Coeliadinae Higher classification Coeliadinae		Phylum Arthropoda Family Hesperiidae Scientific name Bibasis Rank Genus

Lower classifications Burara amara, Bibasis gomata, Bibasis jaina, Bibasis harisa, Bibasis oedipodea

Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of skipper butterflies. The genus is confined to the Indomalayan ecozone. Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species (B. aquilina, B. iluska, B. sena), the remainder having been removed to Burara.

Species

Bibasis amara - small green awlet

Bibasis anadi - plain orange awlet

Bibasis aquilina (Speyer, 1879) South China to Amur, Japan.

? Bibasis arradi Nicer

Bibasis etelka (Hewitson, [1867]) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Palawan, Mindanao

Bibasis gomata - pale green awlet

Bibasis harisa - orange awlet

Bibasis iluska (Hewitson, 1867) Sulawesi, Burma, Thailand, Laos

Bibasis imperialis Plötz, 1886 Banggai, Sulawesi

Bibasis jaina - orange-striped awl

Bibasis jaina formosana (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Formosa

? Bibasis kanara (Evans, 1926) South India

Bibasis mahintha Moore 1874 Burma, Thailand, Laos - May be subspecies of Bibasis iluska (Hewitson, 1867)

Bibasis miraculata Evans, 1949

Bibasis oedipodea - branded orange awlet

Bibasis owstoni Eliot, 1980 Malaysia

Bibasis phul (Mabille, 1876) Celebes, Philippines

Bibasis sena - orangetail awl

Bibasis striata (Hewitson, [1867]) Vietnam, West China

Bibasis tuckeri Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Sri Lanka, N.India, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Palawan, Mindanao, Sulawesi, Banggai, Sula

Bibasis unipuncta Lee, 1962 Yunnan

Bibasis vasutana - green awlet

References

Bibasis Wikipedia

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