''Iton'' is a genus of grassskippers in the family

Hesperiidae Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...

. It has two species, both found in the

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. 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,

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Sikkim - Assam, Burma, Malaya *'' Iton watsonii'' (de Nicéville, 1890) Burma

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
;Footnotes Hesperiinae Hesperiidae genera Taxa named by Lionel de Nicéville Taxa described in 1895 {{Hesperiinae-stub