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Parnara naso (African Straight)

Synonyms: Hesperia marchalii; Hesperia naso

Wikipedia Abstract

Parnara naso, the African straight or straight swift, is a skipper butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found on Mauritius, Réunion and Madagascar. The habitat consists of forest margins and anthropogenic environments. The larvae feed on Oryza sativa and Saccharum officinarum.
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Infraspecies

Parnara naso bada
Parnara naso bigutta
Parnara naso monasi
Parnara naso naso
Parnara naso podora
Parnara naso poutieri

Prey / Diet

Colocasia fontanesii (coco yam)[1]
Oryza sativa (rice)[2]
Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane)[2]
Steudnera virosa (Wild Taro)[2]
Zea mays (corn)[2]

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Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0