Bibasis

For the ancient Spartan dance, see Bibasis (dance).

Awlets
Ventral view, B. sena
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Bibasis Moore, [1881]

Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of mostly-diurnal skipper butterflies.[1] 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.[2] Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae retained those three and added B. mahintha as a fourth species.[3]

Species

• Bibasis iluska (Hewitson, 1867) Sulawesi, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
• Bibasis mahintha Moore 1874 Myanmar, Thailand, Laos
• Bibasis nestor (Möschler, 1878)
• Bibasis sena - orangetail awl

References

1. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Wang, Rongjiang; Grishin, Nick V. (January 2017). "The complete mitochondrial genome of a skipper Burara striata (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)". Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2 (1): 145–147. doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1298416. ISSN 2380-2359. PMC 5782820. PMID 29376128.
2. 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
3. Chiba, Hideyuki (2009-03-31), "A revision of the subfamily Coeliadinae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)", Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A (Natural History), 7, doi:10.34522/kmnh.7.0_1, retrieved 2024-05-12

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.