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Parnara Moore, [1881]

Parnara Moore, [1881]; Lepid. Ceylon 1 (4): 166, TS: Eudamus guttatus Bremer & Grey
Baorynnis Waterhouse, 1932; Aust. Zool. 7: 201, TS: Pamphila amalia Semper
Parnara (Hesperiinae) ; [BK, 435]; [AfrL]

Larva on Ozyra sativa, Saccharum officinarum, Zea mays, Bambusa, Colocasia esculenta [BMP]

Parnara naso (Fabricius, 1798)

Africa. See [About maps] Hesperia naso Fabricius, 1798; Ent. Syst. (Suppl.): 431, no. 236-7
Parnara naso ; [AfrL]

Larva on Oryza sativa K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991, Review Austr. Butts. (1-4): (120-140)

P. n. naso

Parnara naso naso ; [AfrL]

P. n. poutieri (Boisduval, 1833)

Madagascar Hesperia poutieri Boisduval, 1833; Faun. ent. Madagascar, Lépid. : 65
Parnara naso poutieri ; [MadL]; [AfrL]

P. n. bigutta Evans, 1937

Parnara naso bigutta ; [AfrL]

Parnara monasi (Trimen, 1889)

Natal, Transvaal, Moçambique. See [About maps] Water Watchman
Pamphila monasi Trimen, 1889; South-African Butts 3: 317
Parnara monazi[sic] ; [BOW: pl. 130, f. 9]
Parnara naso monasi ; [BK: 436, pl. 64, f. 868]
Parnara monasi ; [AfrL]

Larva on Saccharum [BK]

Parnara bada (Moore, 1878)

Vietnam. See [About maps] Ceylon Swift
Hesperia bada Moore, 1878; Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3): 688, TL: Ceylon
Baoris sida Waterhouse, 1934
Parnara bada [Don Herbison-Evans]
Parnara bada ; [BMP: 385, pl. 60, f. 1-2]
Parnara naso sida ;
Parnara bada ; [MRS, 728]
Parnara naso bada ;

602x729 (~57Kb) underside Thailand, Chon Buri Province, Pattaya, a small wood at a grassy swamp at the Jomtien beach, between B.O. Guesthouse and Jomtien Metro Condotel, 2nd January, 2006, Photo © Oleg Kosterin

Parnara apostata (Snellen, [1880])

-. See [About maps] Pamphila apostata Snellen, [1880]; in Veth, Midden-Sumatra, 4 (8): 27

P. a. apostata

Parnara apostata apostata ; [BMP: 385, pl. 60, f. 3-4]

P. a. hulsei Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 1999

S.Yunnan, ... Parnara apostata hulsei ; Huang & Xue, 2004, Neue Ent. Nachr. 57: 146 (name)

Parnara ganga Evans, 1937

Vietnam. See [About maps] Continental Swift
Parnara ganga Evans, 1937; Entomologist 70 (4): 83 (part 12), TL: Manipur
Parnara ganga ; [MRS, 728]; [BMP: 386, pl. 60, f. 5]

Parnara guttatus (Bremer & Grey, [1852])

Ceylon, India, Burma, Afghanistan - Pakistan - Japan, Indonesia. See [About maps] Straight Swift
Eudamus guttatus Bremer & Grey, [1852]; in Motschulsky, Etud. Ent. 1: 60, TL: Beijing, China
Eudamus guttatus Bremer & Grey, 1853; Schmett. N. China: 10, [pl. 3, f. 2]
fortunei Felder, 1862
Parnara guttatus ; [BRU, 132]; [BOW: pl. 188, f. 6]
Parnara guttata ; [MRS, 727]

800x1041 (~90Kb) upperside Japan: Lake Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, 23.8.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant

640x832 (~115Kb) underside Japan: Lake Kawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, 23.8.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant

700x1058 (~88Kb) upperside Japan: Tokyo, 1.9.2007, Photo © Peter Payzant

Larva on (grasses, rice) [BRU]

P. g. mangala (Moore, [1865])

Yunnan, ...? guttatus mangala (Moore, [1865]); , TL: N.India
Parnara guttata mangala ; [MRS, 727]

P. g. ormuzd (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888)

Parnara guttata ormuzd ;

Parnara batta Evans, 1949

SE.China. See [About maps] Parnara guttatus batta Evans, 1949; , TL: SE.China, Guang Dong
Parnara batta ; Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2002, Atalanta 33 (1/2): 150, pl. Va, f. 9-10

Parnara kawazoei Chiba & Eliot, 1991

Philippines. See [About maps]

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[AfrL]

Mark C. Williams; Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007); e-mail: Mark C. Williams

[BK]

Larsen, Torben B., 1996; The Butterflies of Kenya and their natural history

[BMP]

Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[BRU]

Tuzov, Bogdanov, Devyatkin, Kaabak, Korolev, Murzin, Samodurov, Tarasov, 1997; Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae; Volume 1

[Don Herbison-Evans]

and Stella A. Crossley; Lepidoptera Larvae of Australia; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans; e-mail: Don Herbison-Evans

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[MadL]

Lees, D.C., Kremen, C. and Raharitsimba, H. 2003; in S.M. Goodman & J. P. Benstead (eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar; Classification, Diversity and Endemism of the Butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): A Revised Species Checklist: : pp. 762-793; University of Chicago Press. 1709 pp.

[Oleg Kosterin]

Institue of Cytology & Genetics; Siberian Division of Russian Academy of Sciences; Novosibirsk; e-mail: Oleg Kosterin; http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/

[Peter Payzant]

Canada; http://www.pbase.com/ppayzant/profile

Some related literature:

Boisduval, 1833

Faune Entomologique de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Lépidoptéres Faun. ent. Madagascar, Lépid. : 1-122, pl. 1-16 (Repaged offprint from Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. nat. Paris 2 (2): 149-270)

Bremer & Grey, [1852]

Diagnoses de Lépidopterères nouveaux, trouvés par Mm. Tatarinoff et Gaschkewitch aux environs de Pekin in Motschulsky, Etud. Ent. 1: 58-67

Bremer & Grey, 1853

Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-Fauna des nördlichen China Schmett. N. China: 23pp, [2 pls]

Devyatkin & Monastyrskii, 2002

Hesperiidae of Vietnam 12: A further contribution to the Hesperiidae fauna of North and Central Vietnam Atalanta 33 (1/2): 137-155

K. L. & L. E. Dunn, 1991

Review of Australian Butterflies: distribution, life history and taxonomy. Pushlished by authors, Melbourne Review Austr. Butts. (1-4):

Evans, 1937

Indo-Australian Hesperiidae: Description of new Genera, Species and Subspecies Entomologist 70 (1): 16-19 (part 9) (2): 38-40 (part 10) (3): 64-66 (part 11) (4): 81-83 (part 12)

Huang & Xue, 2004

A Contribution to the Butterfly Fauna of Southern Yunnan Neue Ent. Nachr. 57: 135-154, pl. 11

Moore, 1878

Descriptions of new Asiatic Hesperidae Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1878 (3): 686-695

Moore, [1881]

The Lepidoptera of Ceylon Lepid. Ceylon 1 (1): 1-40, pl. 1-18 (2): 41-80, pl. 19-36 (3): 81-136, pl. 37-54 (4): 137-190, pl. 55-71

Semper, [1879]

Beitrag zur Rhopalocerenfauna von Australien J. Mus. Godeffroy 5 (2) (heft 14): 138-194, pl. 8-9

Snellen, [1880]

Midden-Sumatra. Reizen en onderzoekingen der Sumatra Expeditie. in Veth, Midden-Sumatra, 4 (8): 1-92, pl. 1-5

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