Indomalayan
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...
genus of
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
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...
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Isma bononia
''Isma'' is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' (Hewitson, 1868) –
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
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Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
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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
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
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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
Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's List ...
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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
Malaya refers to a number of historical and current political entities related to what is currently Peninsular Malaysia in Southeast Asia:
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
Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan ...
, Malaysia
*'' Isma miosticta'' (de Nicéville, 1891) – Borneo, Malaysia
*'' Isma protoclea'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) – Myanmar
*'' Isma umbrosa'' (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