Darpa (butterfly) explained

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

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

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Images representing Darpa at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Darpa Moore, 1866 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Notes and 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 . 35370352 . 8975183 . en.