Parnara

Parnara is a genus of butterflies in the family Hesperiidae, the skippers. They are native to Asia, Africa and Australia.^[1]

Parnara
In Nepal
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Tribe:	Baorini
Genus:	Parnara Moore, [1881]
Synonyms
Baorynnis Waterhouse, 1932

These are small, brown skippers that have thin, translucent spots on their wings.^[1]

Species

Species include:^[2][3]

• 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)

Biology

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