Biology:Isma

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Isma
Isma feralia figure 32
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Isma Distant, 1886
Species
See text

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

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Isma binotata Elwes & Edwards, 1897 – Borneo
• 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.

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  I. umbrosa, I. binotata , I.bipunctata, I. guttulifera and I. feralia in Elwes & Edwards, 1897

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  I. bononia, I. iapis and I. feralia in Piepers and Snellen The Rhopalocera of Java

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  I. protoclea and I. bononia in Rhopalocera Malayana

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  I. miosticta in de Nicéville, 1891

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Isma, Funet Taxonomy

Wikidata ☰ Q1763389 entry