''Unkana'' is a genus of
grass skipper
Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.
Description and distribution
With over 2,000 described sp ...
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 ...
. The genus is confined to the
Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia.
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
.
Species
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Unkana ambasa'' (Moore,
858
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Year 858 ( DCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – King Louis the German, summoned by the disaffected Frankish nobles, invades the West Frankish Kin ...
**''U. a. ambasa'' Sumatra, Malaya, Philippines, Java
**''U. a. attina'' (Hewitson,
866
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Year 866 ( DCCCLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* April 21 – Bardas, the regent of the Byzantine Empire, is murdered by Basil the Macedonian at Miletu ...
S.Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Laos
**''U. a. batara'' Distant, 1886 S.Vietnam, Malaya, Thailand, Langkawi, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Batoe
**''U. a. tranga'' Evans, 1949 Nias
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Unkana flava'' Evans, 1932 Burma, N.Thailand, Laos, N.Vietnam.
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Unkana mindanensis'' Fruhstorfer, 1911 Philippines
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Unkana mytheca'' (Hewitson, 1877)
**''U. m. mytheca'' Malaya, S.Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Bangka
**''U. m. kala'' (Evans, 1932) Nias
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus databaseFunet
Hesperiinae
Hesperiidae genera
Taxa named by William Lucas Distant
Taxa described in 1886
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