''Iton'' is a genus of
grassskippers in the family
Hesperiidae. It has two species, both found in the
Indomalayan realm.
The genus was named by
Lionel de Nicéville
Charles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville (1852 in Bristol – 3 December 1901 in Calcutta from malaria) was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now Kolkata). He studied the butterflies of the Indian Subcontinent and wrote a three volume mono ...
in 1895.
[de Nicéville, 1895, On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region ''J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.'' 9 (3): 259-321, pl. N-Q, (4): 366-410.]
Species
*''
Iton semamora'' (Moore,
866 Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Malaya
*''
Iton watsonii'' (de Nicéville, 1890) Burma
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
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Hesperiinae
Hesperiidae genera
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