Oerane microthyrus

Oerane microthyrus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Oerane
Species:	O. microthyrus
Binomial name
Oerane microthyrus Mabille 1883[1]
Synonyms
Plesioneura microthyrus Mabille, 1883 Notocrypta neaera de Nicéville, 1891 Oerane neaera pusilla Fruhstorfer, 1911 Oerane drymo Mabille, 1913

Oerane microthyrus is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Paul Mabille in 1883 and is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2] The larvae feed on Calamus oblongus (syn. Daemonorops oblonga).

Subspecies

• O. m. microthyrus - (Malaysia to the Philippines)
• O. m. neaera (de Nicéville, 1891) - (Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, Banka, Java)

References

1. Mabille, 1883 Description d'hespériens Bull. Soc. Ent. Belg. 27 : li-lxxviii
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

• Oerane Elwes & Edwards, 1897 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms