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

Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea; however, the most recent taxonomy ...

. 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 monog ...

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

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Iton semamora ''Iton semamora'', the common wight, is a blue butterfly which is found in South and Southeast Asia, specifically, Sikkim, Myanmar and peninsular Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitution ...

'' (Moore,

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

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
;Specific Hesperiinae Hesperiidae genera {{Hesperiinae-stub