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{{Short description|Genus of butterflies}}
{{Other uses|ISMA (disambiguation)}}
{{Taxobox
| image = Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies Hesperia IV.jpg
| image_caption = ''Isma feralia'' figure 32
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropod]]a
| classis = [[Insect]]a
| ordo = [[Lepidoptera]]
| familia = [[Hesperiidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Hesperiinae]]
| tribus = [[Erionotini]]
| genus = '''''Isma'''''
| genus_authority = [[William Lucas Distant|Distant]], 1886
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision = See [[#Species|text]]
}}
'''''Isma'''''  is an [[Indomalayan realm|Indomalayan]]<ref>[[Adalbert Seitz|Seitz, A.]], 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9</ref> genus of [[grass skippers]] in the family [[Hesperiidae]].
==Species==
Listed alphabetically:<ref>[http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/isma/ ''Isma''], funet.fi</ref>
*''[[Isma binotata]]'' <small>Elwes & Edwards, 1897</small> – [[Borneo]]
*''[[Isma bononia]]'' <small>(Hewitson, 1868)</small> – [[Singapore]], [[Malaysia]]
*''[[Isma bononoides]]'' <small>(Druce, 1912)</small> – Borneo
*''[[Isma bonota]]'' <small>Cantlie & Norman, 1959</small>
*''[[Isma cinnamomea]]'' <small>(Elwes & Edwards, 1897)</small> – Borneo, [[Sumatra]]
*''[[Isma cronus]]'' <small>(de Nicéville, 1894)</small>
*''[[Isma dawna]]'' <small>(Evans, 1926)</small> – south [[Myanmar]]
*''[[Isma dichroa]]'' <small>(Kollar, 1844)</small>
*''[[Isma feralia]]'' <small>(Hewitson, 1868)</small> – Myanmar, [[Java]]
*''[[Isma flemingi]]'' <small>Eliot, 1984</small> – Malaysia
*''[[Isma guttulifera]]'' <small>(Elwes & Edwards, 1897)</small> – [[Malay Peninsula|Malaya]]
*''[[Isma hislopi]]'' <small>Eliot, 1973</small> – Malaysia
*''[[Isma iapis]]'' <small>(de Nicéville, 1890)</small> – plain tufted lancer – [[Johor]], Malaysia
*''[[Isma miosticta]]'' <small>(de Nicéville, 1891)</small> – Borneo, Malaysia
*''[[Isma protoclea]]'' <small>(Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)</small> – Myanmar
*''[[Isma umbrosa]]'' <small>(Elwes & Edwards, 1897</small> – Borneo, [[Vietnam]]
==Biology==
The larvae feed on ''[[Musa (genus)|Musa]]'', ''[[Pandanus]]''.
<gallery>
File:Transactions of the Zoological Society of London (1897) Plate XIX.jpg |  ''I. umbrosa'', ''I.  binotata'' , ''I.bipunctata'', ''I. guttulifera'' and ''I. feralia'' in Elwes & Edwards, 1897
File:Piepers and Snellen Rhopalocera of Java Plate VII.jpg |''I. bononia'', ''I. iapis'' and ''I. feralia'' in Piepers and Snellen ''The Rhopalocera of Java''
File:RhopaloceraMalayanaXXXV.jpg| ''I. protoclea'' and ''I. bononia'' in ''Rhopalocera Malayana''
File:JournalBombayNHS1891PlateG.jpg  | ''I. miosticta'' in de Nicéville, 1891
</gallery>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
*[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/butmoth/GenusList3.dsml?searchPageURL=index.dsml&SUPERFAMIL=&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILY=hesperiidae&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&SUBFAMILY=&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&TRIBE=&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&SUBTRIBE=&GENUSqtype=starts+with&GENUS=&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&AUTHOR=&YEARqtype=equals&YEAR=&sort=GENUS Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database]
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/hesperioidea/hesperiidae/hesperiinae/isma/ ''Isma''], Funet Taxonomy
{{Taxonbar|from=Q1763389}}
[[Category:Hesperiinae]]
[[Category:Hesperiidae genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by William Lucas Distant]]
[[Category:Taxa described in 1886]]
{{Hesperiinae-stub}}