Parnara

Updated on Dec 20, 2023

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Kingdom Animalia Order Lepidoptera Subfamily Hesperiinae Phylum Arthropoda		Class Insecta Family Hesperiidae Tribe Baorini Rank Genus

Similar Parnara guttata, Parnara bada, Pelopidas, Caltoris, Polytremis

Parnara s first collection

Parnara is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, the skippers. They are native to Asia, Africa and Australia.

These are small, brown skippers that have thin, translucent spots on their wings.

Species include:

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)

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