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]
Synonyms
Burara

Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of skipper butterflies. The genus is confined to the Indomalayan realm. 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.
• ? Nicer
• (Hewitson, [1867]) Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malay Peninsula, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Palawan, Mindanao
• Bibasis gomata - pale green awlet
• Bibasis harisa - orange awlet
• (Hewitson, 1867) Sulawesi, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
• Plötz, 1886 Banggai, Sulawesi
• Bibasis jaina - orange-striped awl
  • Bibasis jaina formosana (Fruhstorfer, 1911) Formosa
• ? (Evans, 1926) South India
• Moore 1874 Myanmar, Thailand, Laos - May be subspecies of (Hewitson, 1867)
• Evans, 1949
• Bibasis oedipodea - branded orange awlet
• Eliot, 1980 Malaysia
• (Mabille, 1876) Celebes, Philippines
• Bibasis sena - orangetail awl
• (Hewitson, [1867]) Vietnam, West China
• Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Sri Lanka, N.India, Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, Palawan, Mindanao, Sulawesi, Banggai, Sula
• Lee, 1962 Yunnan
• Bibasis vasutana - green awlet

References[]

External links[]

• Savela, Markku, ed. (February 10, 2019). "Bibasis Moore, [1881]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 14, 2021.
• Images representing Bibasis at Encyclopedia of Life.

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