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Isma

Isma is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Erionotini
Genus: Isma
Distant, 1886
Species

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Isma is an Indomalayan1 genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Listed alphabetically:2

  • Isma binotata Elwes & Edwards, 1897Borneo
  • Isma bononia (Hewitson, 1868)Singapore, Malaysia
  • Isma bononoides (Druce, 1912) – Borneo
  • Isma bonota Cantlie & Norman, 1959
  • Isma cinnamomea (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) – Borneo, Sumatra
  • Isma cronus (de Nicéville, 1894)
  • Isma dawna (Evans, 1926) – south Myanmar
  • Isma dichroa (Kollar, 1844)
  • Isma feralia (Hewitson, 1868) – Myanmar, Java
  • Isma flemingi Eliot, 1984 – Malaysia
  • Isma guttulifera (Elwes & Edwards, 1897)Malaya
  • Isma hislopi Eliot, 1973 – Malaysia
  • Isma iapis (de Nicéville, 1890) – plain tufted lancer – Johor, Malaysia
  • Isma miosticta (de Nicéville, 1891) – Borneo, Malaysia
  • Isma protoclea (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Myanmar
  • Isma umbrosa (Elwes & Edwards, 1897 – Borneo, Vietnam

Biology

The larvae feed on Musa, Pandanus.

References

References

  1. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  2. Isma, funet.fi
External links
  • Isma, Funet Taxonomy