Parnara

Parnara
In Nepal
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Baorini
Genus:	Parnara Moore, [1881]
Synonyms
BaorynnisWaterhouse, 1932

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. andraEvans, 1949 Borneo
  • P. a. debdasiChiba & Eliot, 1991 Nepal
  • P. a. hulseiDevyatkin & 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

1. 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.
2. Parnara. Funet.
3. Parnara. Uniprot.
4. 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

External links

• Media related to Parnara at Wikimedia Commons
• Parnara. Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum.
• Images representing Parnara at Consortium for the Barcode of Life