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Genus of butterflies

Pirdana

Pirdana albicornis Elwes & Edwards, 1897 (figure 14)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Pirdana Distant, 1886

Pirdana is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

Pirdana albicornis Elwes & Edwards, 1897 Borneo
Pirdana hyela (Hewitson, 1867) Burma, Malaya to Celebes and (P. h. rudolphii Elwes & de Nicéville, ) Vietnam
Pirdana distanti Staudinger, 1889 Sumatra, Malaya, Borneo and (P. d. niasica Fruhstorfer, 1916) Nias
Pirdana fusca de Jong & Treadaway, 1993 Samar
Pirdana ismene (C. & R. Felder, ) Celebes

Biology

The larvae feed on Dracaenaceae including Dracaena, Agavaceae including Cordyline, Convallariaceae including Peliosanthes

References

Robinson, 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

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
"Pirdana Distant, 1886" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Taxon identifiers
Pirdana	Wikidata: Q1764866 Wikispecies: Pirdana BioLib: 643989 BOLD: 295331 ButMoth: 23180.0 CoL: 92K3F EoL: 20641 GBIF: 1942876 iNaturalist: 470733 IRMNG: 1282836 LepIndex: 186660 NCBI: 1113458 Open Tree of Life: 303625

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