Parnara

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])
(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
Evans, 1949 Southeast China
Parnara ganga Evans, 1937 – continental swift
Parnara guttata (Bremer & Grey, [1852]) – straight swift
Chiba & Eliot, 1991 Philippines, Borneo, Sulawesi
Parnara monasi (Trimen, 1889) – water watchman
Parnara naso (Fabricius, 1798)
Parnara ogasawarensis Matsumura, 1906 Bonin Islands (Japan)

The larvae feed on Gramineae including Bambusa, Oryza, Apluda, Bothriochloa, Colocasia, Imperata, Microstegium, Zea, Saccharum ^[4]

^ ^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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