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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFF6FFE07FE92FE39" bold="true" box="[151,347,404,430]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Parnara monasi</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EF93818F7B7AD20BFF6FFE24FEF1FE59" author="Larsen" box="[151,312,438,462]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" refString="Larsen, T. B. (1991) The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 490 pp." type="book" year="1991">Larsen (1991)</bibRefCitation>
reported this species from
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, based on a female (now in the National Museums of
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) which I captured in Kakamega Forest,
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, at the D267 crossing of the Ikuywa River. I have since found a male further north, by a patch of swampy grass where a stream crosses the track,
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and ABRI has specimens from Busia and Endebess, western
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.
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associate this species with grassy banks of streams, or the edge of bush.
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFF6FFD1DFED7FD31" box="[151,286,654,678]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Food plants</emphasis>
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A water-side grass has been observed to be the food plant in
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(G.C. Clark in
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,
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Pringle
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. 1994
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). I have found it common in a wet meadow of
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFCF1FD44FC07FD79" box="[777,974,726,750]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Leersia hexandra</emphasis>
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in
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, and suspect this will prove to be a food plant. It is recorded as a pest of rice (
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) in
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under the name
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFB4EFD6FFAC1FC84" box="[1206,1288,764,787]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. naso</emphasis>
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(of which
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFA7FFD6FFF21FCA1" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. monasi</emphasis>
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was considered a subspecies until 1991) (
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) but we have not traced the source of this information.
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mentions two other skippers as rice pests in his account of the insect pests of rice in
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, but no
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFE4DFCFBFDDDFCE8" box="[437,532,872,895]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Parnara</emphasis>
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spp.
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In
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,
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reared it on three grasses:
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFC78FC18FB62FC34" box="[896,1195,907,931]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Andropogon canaliculatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFB43FC1FFA55FC34" box="[1211,1436,907,931]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Imperata cylindrica</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFF3EFC3DFE9FFC51" box="[198,342,942,966]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Hyparrhenia</emphasis>
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sp., which he characterises as grasses
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([regularly or annually] burnt savannah).
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Williams (1989) and Davis &amp; Barnes (1993) records of sugar cane and other
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as food plants of
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFA7FFC47FECEFB98" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. naso naso</emphasis>
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in
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are probably the origin of the food plant record of
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFC2DFC65FB9AFB99" box="[981,1107,1014,1038]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Saccharum</emphasis>
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listed in
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for
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFA7FFC6BFEEAFBA4" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. naso monasi</emphasis>
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and
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Ackery
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. (1995)
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for
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,
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including
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFCCDFB8FFC14FBA4" box="[821,989,1052,1075]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. naso monasi</emphasis>
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, since both these works followed
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in treating
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as a subspecies of
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. However, when
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Heath
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. (2002)
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and
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treated
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFF14FBF7FE93FBEC" box="[236,346,1124,1147]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. monasi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a separate species, they continued to list
<taxonomicName id="4C0287FD7B7AD20BFCAFFBF0FC1CFBEC" box="[855,981,1123,1147]" class="Liliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Saccharum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Poales" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFCAFFBF0FC1CFBEC" box="[855,981,1123,1147]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Saccharum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a food plant. Although
<taxonomicName id="4C0287FD7B7AD20BFAEAFBF7FA48FBEC" box="[1298,1409,1124,1147]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Parnara" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monasi">
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFAEAFBF7FA48FBEC" box="[1298,1409,1124,1147]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">P. monasi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is quite likely to feed on
<taxonomicName id="4C0287FD7B7AD20BFE6CFB15FDDBFB09" box="[404,530,1158,1182]" class="Liliopsida" family="Poaceae" genus="Saccharum" kingdom="Plantae" order="Poales" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFE6CFB15FDDBFB09" box="[404,530,1158,1182]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Saccharum</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, we have traced no records of it doing so.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BBDFC7E7B7AD20BFF6FFB5DFEDEFB71" blockId="30.[151,1436,1230,1542]" box="[151,279,1230,1254]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFF6FFB5DFEDEFB71" box="[151,279,1230,1254]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Life history</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BBDFC7E7B7AD20BFF6FFB60FE25F991" blockId="30.[151,1436,1230,1542]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">
We have not reared this species, but G.C. Clark (in
<bibRefCitation id="EF93818F7B7AD20BFD2CFB61FC17FA9D" author="Dickson" box="[724,990,1266,1290]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" refString="Dickson, C. G. C. &amp; Kroon, D. M. (Eds.) (1978) Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa. A. D. Donker, Johannesburg, South Africa, 670 pp." type="book" year="1978">Dickson &amp; Kroon 1978</bibRefCitation>
, Plate 37) illustrates it in detail, and the following notes are taken from this source. Ovum yellow and hemispherical, turning blue-green, and developing red maculae before hatching. Leaf shelters a grass tube. The yellowish caterpillar has a dark head for the first three instars. The fourth instar has a pale brown head, dark posteriorly, with an inverted dark
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFB79FACCFB54FAE0" bold="true" box="[1153,1181,1375,1399]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">W</emphasis>
on the face. The fifth instar has a brown head, with the posterior margin dark, a dark stripe down the median suture, running into a more or less rectangular dark area extending slightly wider than the clypeus, and interrupted by pale adfrontal plates. The pupa differs significantly from those of
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<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFD71FA58FD30FA74" box="[649,761,1483,1507]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Pelopidas</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C0287FD7B7AD20BFCFFFA58FC84FA74" box="[775,845,1483,1507]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Borbo" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFCFFFA58FC84FA74" box="[775,845,1483,1507]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Borbo</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName id="4C0287FD7B7AD20BFC7CFA58FC2DFA75" box="[900,996,1483,1506]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Gegenes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="B976206C7B7AD20BFC7CFA58FC2DFA75" box="[900,996,1483,1506]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Gegenes</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, as it is dark, with no frontal spike and covered with thick white fluff.
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