Bibasis

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

Bibasis
Ventral view, B. sena
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Coeliadinae
Genus:	Bibasis Moore, [1881]
Synonyms [1]
Gecana Swinhoe, 1912 Pola Swinhoe, 1912 Sartora Swinhoe, 1912 Tothrix Swinhoe, 1912 Zehala Swinhoe, 1912 Burara Swinhoe, 1893 Ismene Swainson, 1820

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]

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.

References

1. "Bibasis Moore, 1881". Catalogue of Life . Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 5 July 2025.
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. 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
4. Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on genus Bibasis genus Burara in the Tree of Life Web Project) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara as morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, where many authors have formerly included them.
5. 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 .
• Media related to Bibasis at Wikimedia Commons}
• Data related to Bibasis at Wikispecies}