About Bibasis etelka (Hewitson, 1871)
Burara etelka, commonly called the great orange awlet, is a species of skipper first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1871. Some classification systems place this species under the name Bibasis etelka. However, Maruyama & Otsuka (1991) listed it as Burara etelka, a placement that was repeated by Bridges (1994). Vane-Wright & de Jong (2003) further confirmed the genus Burara as valid, when they identified that multiple species were genetically divergent from the genus Bibasis. Later, in 2009, Chiba published a detailed comparative morphological study of this species under the name Burara etelka. The placement of this species in the genus Burara received strong support from 2020 genomic analyses conducted by Toussaint. This species is found mostly in Southeast Asia.
