Burara

Burara
Orange-striped awl
Burara jaina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
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. They were treated Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong in 2003. Its species are crepuscular.

Species

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

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. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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