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

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. ^[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]) 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

↑ The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna Zool. Verh. Leiden 343, 11.vii.2003: 3-267, figs 1-14, pls 1-16

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