Parnara

 ( Baorini ) 

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

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

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Species Species include: Parnara. Funet. Parnara. Uniprot.

• 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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Biology The larvae feed on Gramineae including Bambusa, Oryza, Apluda, Bothriochloa, Colocasia, Imperata, Microstegium, Zea, SaccharumRobinson, 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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External links

• Parnara. Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum.
• Images representing Parnara at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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