Bibasis

{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}

{{For|the ancient Spartan dance|Bibasis (dance)}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Awlets

| image2 = Orange tail awl 1 PTR IMG 0713.jpg

| image2_caption = Ventral view, B. sena

| taxon = Bibasis

| authority = Moore, [1881]

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Bibasis, the awlets, are a genus of mostly-diurnal skipper butterflies.{{Cite journal |last1=Zhang |first1=Jing |last2=Cong |first2=Qian |last3=Shen |first3=Jinhui |last4=Wang |first4=Rongjiang |last5=Grishin |first5=Nick V. |date=January 2017 |title=The complete mitochondrial genome of a skipper Burara striata (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) |journal=Mitochondrial DNA Part B |language=en |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=145–147 |doi=10.1080/23802359.2017.1298416 |issn=2380-2359 |pmc=5782820 |pmid=29376128}} The genus is confined to the Indomalayan realm. Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species (B. aquilina, B. iluska, B. sena), the remainder having been removed to Burara.[http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=46743 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]Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) (see TOL web pages on [http://tolweb.org/Bibasis/94259/2007.02.21 genus Bibasis] [http://tolweb.org/Burara/94260/2007.02.21 genus Burara] in the [http://tolweb.org/ Tree of Life Web Project]) state that Bibasis contains just three diurnal species, the crepuscular remainder having been removed to Burara as morphologically and behaviorally distinct from Bibasis, where many authors have formerly included them. Hideyuki Chiba's 2009 revision of subfamily Coeliadinae retained those three and added B. mahintha as a fourth species.{{Citation |last=Chiba |first=Hideyuki |title=A revision of the subfamily Coeliadinae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) |journal=Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A (Natural History) |date=2009-03-31 |volume=7 |url=https://doi.org/10.34522/kmnh.7.0_1 |access-date=2024-05-12 |language=en |doi=10.34522/kmnh.7.0_1}}