Oerane

Oerane
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Oerane; Elwes & Edwards, 1897
Species:	O. microthyrus
Binomial name
	Oerane microthyrus; Mabille 1883
Synonyms
	Plesioneura microthyrus Mabille, 1883; Notocrypta neaera de Nicéville, 1891; Oerane neaera pusilla Fruhstorfer, 1911; Oerane drymo Mabille, 1913;

Oerane microthyrus is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae and the only species in the genus Oerane. It was described by Paul Mabille in 1883. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.^[2] The larva feeds on Daemonorops oblongus.

Subspecies[]

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

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

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

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