Bibasis
| Awlets | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Orange-striped Awl Bibasis jaina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Coeliadinae |
| Genus: | Bibasis Moore, [ 1881 ] |
| Species | |
|
Several, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Burara | |
The awlets, Bibasis, 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, the remainder having been removed to Burara. [1]
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])
- Bibasis gomata - Pale Green Awlet
- Bibasis harisa - Orange Awlet
- Bibasis iluska (Hewitson, 1867)
- Bibasis imperialis Plötz, 1886
- Bibasis jaina - Orange-striped Awl
- Bibasis jaina formosana (Fruhstorfer, 1911)
- ? Bibasis kanara (Evans, 1926)
- Bibasis mahintha Moore 1874
- Bibasis miraculata Evans, 1949
- Bibasis oedipodea - Branded Orange Awlet
- Bibasis owstoni Eliot, 1980
- Bibasis phul (Mabille, 1876)
- Bibasis sena - Orangetail Awl
- Bibasis striata (Hewitson, [1867])
- Bibasis tuckeri Elwes & Edwards, 1897
- Bibasis unipuncta Lee, 1962
- Bibasis vasutana - Green Awlet