Genus of butterflies
Parnara is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, the skippers. They are native to Asia, Africa and Australia.[1]
These are small, brown skippers that have thin, translucent spots on their wings.[1]
Species
Species include:[2][3]
- Parnara amalia (Semper, [1879])
- Parnara apostata (Snellen, [1880])
- P. a. apostata Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, S.Burma, Java, Bali
- P. a. andra Evans, 1949 Borneo
- P. a. debdasi Chiba & Eliot, 1991 Nepal
- P. a. hulsei Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 1999 South Yunnan
- Parnara bada (Moore, 1878) – Ceylon swift
- Parnara batta Evans, 1949 Southeast China
- Parnara ganga Evans, 1937 – continental swift
- Parnara guttata (Bremer & Grey, [1852]) – straight swift
- Parnara kawazoei Chiba & Eliot, 1991 Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi
- Parnara monasi (Trimen, 1889) – water watchman
- Parnara naso (Fabricius, 1798)
- Parnara ogasawarensis Matsumura, 1906 Bonin Islands (Japan)
Biology
The larvae feed on Gramineae including Bambusa, Oryza, Apluda, Bothriochloa, Colocasia, Imperata, Microstegium, Zea, Saccharum [4]
References
- ^ a b Chiba, H. and J. N. Eliot. (1991). A revision of the genus Parnara Moore (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae), with special reference to the Asian species. Tyô to Ga 42(3), 179-94.
- ^ Parnara. Funet.
- ^ Parnara. Uniprot.
- ^ Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts
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