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Burara

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Burara
Orange-striped awl
Burara jaina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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, but were moved to Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong in 2003.[1] Its species are crepuscular.[2]

Species

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Burara contains fourteen species, according to Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae.[3]

References

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  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. ^ 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