grass skippers
Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.
Description and distribution
With over 2,000 described sp ...
in the family
Hesperiidae
Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...
Isma binotata
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' Elwes & Edwards, 1897 –
Borneo
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Isma bononia
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Hewitson, 1868) –
Singapore
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Malaysia
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Isma bononoides
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Druce, 1912) – Borneo
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Isma bonota
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' Cantlie & Norman, 1959
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Isma cinnamomea
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) – Borneo,
Sumatra
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Isma cronus
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (de Nicéville, 1894)
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Isma dawna
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Evans, 1926) – south
Myanmar
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Isma dichroa
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Kollar, 1844)
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Isma feralia
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Hewitson, 1868) – Myanmar,
Java
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Isma flemingi
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' Eliot, 1984 – Malaysia
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Isma guttulifera
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Elwes & Edwards, 1897) –
Malaya
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Political entities
* British Malaya (1826–1957), a loose collection of the British colony of the Straits ...
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Isma hislopi
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' Eliot, 1973 – Malaysia
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Isma iapis
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (de Nicéville, 1890) – plain tufted lancer –
Johor
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, Malaysia
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Isma miosticta
''Isma miosticta'' is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Lionel de Nicéville in 1891. It is found in the Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of Sout ...
'' (de Nicéville, 1891) – Borneo, Malaysia
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Isma protoclea
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Myanmar
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Isma umbrosa
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Elwes & Edwards, 1897 – Borneo,
Vietnam
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Biology
The larvae feed on ''
Musa
Musa may refer to:
Places
*Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia
* Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon
* Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam Province
*Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
*Musa, Kerman, Iran
* Musa, Bukan, West Azerbaijan ...
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Pandanus
''Pandanus'' is a genus of monocots with some 750 accepted species. They are palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. The greatest number of species are found in Madagascar and Malaysia. Common names ...
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File:Transactions of the Zoological Society of London (1897) Plate XIX.jpg , ''I. umbrosa'', ''I. binotata'' , ''I.bipunctata'', ''I. guttulifera'' and ''I. feralia'' in Elwes & Edwards, 1897
File:Piepers and Snellen Rhopalocera of Java Plate VII.jpg , ''I. bononia'', ''I. iapis'' and ''I. feralia'' in Piepers and Snellen ''The Rhopalocera of Java''
File:RhopaloceraMalayanaXXXV.jpg, ''I. protoclea'' and ''I. bononia'' in ''Rhopalocera Malayana''
File:JournalBombayNHS1891PlateG.jpg , ''I. miosticta'' in de Nicéville, 1891