Bibasis
Genus of butterflies
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Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of mostly-diurnal skipper butterflies.[2] 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.[3][4] Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae retained those three and added B. mahintha as a fourth species.[5]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Coeliadinae |
| Genus: | Bibasis Moore, [1881] |
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Species
- Bibasis iluska (Hewitson, 1867) – Sulawesi
- Bibasis mahintha Moore 1874 – Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
- Bibasis nestor (Möschler, 1878) – Indonesia (Java, Lombok, Suwumba, etc)
- Bibasis sena (Moore, 1866) – orange-tailed awlet – India, Sri Lanka, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi, etc), Malaysia, Philippines.
