Darpa (butterfly)

Darpa is a genus of spread-wingedskippers in the family Hesperiidae. Their distribution is restricted to the Indomalayan realm.

Darpa
Darpa hanria
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Tagiadini
Genus: Darpa
Moore, 1866

Species

Recognised species in the genus Darpa include:

  • Darpa dealbata (Distant, 1886)[1]
  • Darpa hanria Moore, 1865
  • Darpa pteria (Hewitson, 1868)
  • Darpa striata Druce, 1873
  • Darpa inopinata Devyatkin, 2001

References

  1. Zhang, Jing; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Grishin, Nick (2022-03-14). "Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)". Insecta Mundi. 2022 (921). PMC 8975183. PMID 35370352.


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