''Pirdana'' is a genus of
grass skippers
Grass skippers or banded skippers are butterflies of the subfamily Hesperiinae, part of the skipper family, Hesperiidae. The subfamily was established by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.
Description and distribution
With over 2,000 described sp ...
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, 887/small> ) 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, 867 Celebes
Biology
The larvae feed on
Dracaenaceae including ''
Dracaena'',
Agavaceae
Agavoideae is a subfamily of monocot flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, order Asparagales. It has previously been treated as a separate family, Agavaceae. The group includes many well-known desert and dry-zone types, such as the aga ...
including ''
Cordyline
''Cordyline'' is a genus of about 15 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors ...
'',
Convallariaceae
Nolinoideae is a monocot subfamily of the family Asparagaceae in the APG III system of 2009. It used to be treated as a separate family, Ruscaceae s.l. The family name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, ''Nolina''.
The subfam ...
including ''
Peliosanthes''
[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
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References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database"''Pirdana '' Distant, 1886"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Hesperiinae
Hesperiidae genera
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