Piruna

Piruna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Heteropterinae
Genus:	Piruna Evans, 1955 [1]

Piruna is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

• Piruna aea (Dyar, 1912)
• Piruna ajijiciensis Freeman, 1970
• Piruna brunnea (Scudder, 1872)
• Piruna ceracates (Hewitson, 1874)
• Piruna cyclosticta (Dyar, 1920)
• Piruna dampfi (Bell, 1942)
• Piruna gyrans (Plötz, 1884)
• Piruna haferniki Freeman, 1970
• Piruna jonka Steinhauser, 1991
• Piruna kemneri Freeman, 1990
• Piruna maculata Freeman, 1970
• Piruna microsticta (Godman, [1900])
• Piruna millerorum Steinhauser, 1991
• Piruna mullinsi Freeman, 1991
• Piruna penaea (Dyar, 1918)
• Piruna pirus (Edwards, 1878)
• Piruna polingii (Barnes, 1900)
• Piruna purepecha Warren & González, 1999
• Piruna roeveri (Miller & Miller, 1972)
• Piruna sina Freeman, 1970

References

1. Piruna, Site of Markku Savela

• Butterfly Net International, Higher Classification of Hesperiidae
• Ackery, P., R. de Jong and R. I. Vane-Wright (1999) The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea. in Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology 4(35):263-300 (ed. N. P. Kristensen). Berlin: de Gruyter.
• Evans, W.H., 1955: A catalogue of the American Hesperiidae indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in The British Museum (Natural History).
• Freeman, H.A., 1970: Journal of the New York Entomological Society78: 88-99
• Freeman, H.A., 1979: Nine new species and seven new records of Mexican Hesperiidae. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum52: 1-13.
• Freeman, H.A., 1991, A new species of Piruna from Oaxaca, Mexico (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society45 (1): 42-45. Full article: ^[ permanent dead link ].
• Lamas, G., 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea.
• Warren, A.D. & L. González-Cota, 1998: Notes on the genus Piruna in western Mexico, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research9(Suppl. 2): 1-7.

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database