Burara

Burara
Orange-striped awl Burara jaina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Burara Swinhoe, 1893

Burara is a genus of skipper butterflies. Its species were previously considered part of Bibasis, but were moved to Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong in 2003.[1] Its species are crepuscular.[2]

Species

Burara contains fourteen species, according to Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae.[3]

• Burara amara (Moore, 1866)
• Burara anadi (De Nicéville, 1884)
• Burara aquilina (Speyer, 1879)
• Burara etelka (Hewitson, 1867)
• Burara gomata (Moore, 1866)
• Burara harisa (Moore, 1865),
• Burara jaina (Moore, 1866)
• Burara miracula Evans, 1949
• Burara nishiyamai Chiba & Tsukiyama, 2009
• Burara oedipodea (Swainson, 1820)
• Burara phul (Mabille, 1876)
• Burara striata (Hewitson, 1867)
• Burara tuckeri (Elwes & Edwards, 1897)
• Burara vasutana (Moore, 1866)

References

1. 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
2. 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.
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