Darpa (butterfly)

Darpa
Darpa hanria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Tagiadini
Genus:	Darpa Moore, 1866

Darpa is a genus of spread-wingedskippers in the family Hesperiidae. Their distribution is restricted to the Indomalayan realm.

Species

Recognised species in the genus Darpa include:

• Darpa dealbata (Distant, 1886)[1]
• Darpa hanria Moore, 1865
• Darpa pteria (Hewitson, 1868)
• Darpa striata Druce, 1873
• Darpa inopinata Devyatkin, 2001

References

1. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Images representing Darpa at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Darpa Moore, 1866 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms