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

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyHesperiidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
7
Family
Hesperiidae
Collections
NHMUK, AM
Recorded in
India, Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Baorini
Image
African Straight Swift (Parnara bada) on Lantana W IMG 1558.jpg
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Commons category
Parnara
taxon name
Parnara
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Parnara
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Encyclopedic overview

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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Parnara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.