Isma

Isma
Isma feralia figure 32
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Isma Distant, 1886
Species
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Isma is an Indomalayan^[1] genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species[]

Listed alphabetically:^[2]

• Elwes & Edwards, 1897 – Borneo
• (Hewitson, 1868) – Singapore, Malaysia
• (Druce, 1912) – Borneo
• Cantlie & Norman, 1959
• (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) – Borneo, Sumatra
• (de Nicéville, 1894)
• (Evans, 1926) – south Myanmar
• (Kollar, 1844)
• (Hewitson, 1868) – Myanmar, Java
• Eliot, 1984 – Malaysia
• (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) – Malaya
• Eliot, 1973 – Malaysia
• (de Nicéville, 1890) – plain tufted lancer – Johor, Malaysia
• Isma miosticta (de Nicéville, 1891) – Borneo, Malaysia
• (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Myanmar
• (Elwes & Edwards, 1897 – Borneo, Vietnam

Biology[]

The larvae feed on Musa, Pandanus.

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  I. umbrosa, I. binotata , I.bipunctata, I. guttulifera and I. feralia in Elwes & Edwards, 1897

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  I. bononia, I. iapis and I. feralia in Piepers and Snellen The Rhopalocera of Java

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  I. protoclea and I. bononia in Rhopalocera Malayana

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  I. miosticta in de Nicéville, 1891

References[]

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links[]

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