Parnara Moore 1881
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Parnara Moore, 1881 (in Moore 1880 –1881)
Moore (1880 -1881) established this genus for P. guttatus (Bremer & Gray), a well known minor pest of rice in Asia (e.g., Grist & Lever 1969), for which the life history is well documented (e.g., Bascombe et al. 1999). The genus was reviewed by Chiba & Eliot (1991) mainly based on the male genitalia, and they consider that there are nine species, of which two are African: P. monasi (Trimen) from mainland Africa, and nominate P. naso (Fabricius) from Mauritius and the Seychelles, with ssp. bigutta Evans 1937 from La Réunion and ssp. poutieri Boisduval from Madagascar (which T.B. Larsen (pers. comm. 2011) suggests is likely to be a valid species).
Williams (1989) records that P. naso naso feeds on sugar cane and other Poaceae in Mauritius, although Davis & Barnes (1993) give only sugar cane, while Guillermet (2011) gives only Nastus borbonica (Poaceae). Parnara naso poutieri is a minor pest of rice in Madagascar (Frappa 1937, Bouriquet 1949). We review the available information on the life history of P. monasi in order to compare it with other African Baorini.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.246331 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Parnara
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Moore
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parnara Moore, 1881 sec. Cock & Congdon, 2012
References
- Moore, F. (1880 - 1881) Lepidoptera of Ceylon. Vol. 1. L. Reeve and Co., London, 190 pp.
- Grist, D. H. & Lever, R. J. A. W. (1969) Pests of Rice. Longmans, London, 520 pp.
- Bascombe, M. J., Johnston, G. & Bascombe, F. S. (1999) The butterflies of Hong Kong. Academic Press, London, xiii + 422 pp, 222 plates.
- Chiba, H. & Eliot, J. N. (1991) A revision of the genus Parnara (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), with special reference to the Asian species. Tyo to Ga, 42, 179 - 194.
- Williams, J. R. (1989) Butterflies of Mauritius. The author, Mauritius, 41 pp.
- Davis, P. M. H. & Barnes, M. J. C. (1993) The butterflies of Mauritius. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 30 (1991), 145 - 161.
- Guillermet, C. (2011) Les papillons diurnes de La Reunion. http: // christian. guillermet. perso. neuf. fr / rhopalo. htm (Last accessed 6 Nov 2011).
- Frappa, C. (1937) Note sur deux especes de Pamphila nuisibles au riz a Madagascar. Riz et Riziculture, 11 (1), 19 - 24.
- Bouriquet, G. (1949) Les maladies cryptogamiques et les principaux ennemis vegetaux et animaux du riz a Madagascar. Agronomie tropicale, 4 (1 - 2), 81 - 89.