Piruna is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
- Piruna aea <small>(Dyar, 1912)</small>
- Piruna ajijiciensis <small> Freeman, 1970</small>
- Piruna brunnea <small> (Scudder, 1872)</small>
- Piruna ceracates <small> (Hewitson, 1874)</small>
- Piruna cyclosticta <small> (Dyar, 1920)</small>
- Piruna dampfi <small> (Bell, 1942)</small>
- Piruna gyrans <small> (Plötz, 1884)</small>
- Piruna haferniki <small> Freeman, 1970</small>
- Piruna jonka <small> Steinhauser, 1991</small>
- Piruna kemneri <small> Freeman, 1990</small>
- Piruna maculata <small> Freeman, 1970</small>
- Piruna microsticta <small> (Godman, [1900])</small>
- Piruna millerorum <small> Steinhauser, 1991</small>
- Piruna mullinsi <small> Freeman, 1991</small>
- Piruna penaea <small> (Dyar, 1918)</small>
- Piruna pirus <small> (Edwards, 1878)</small>
- Piruna polingii <small> (Barnes, 1900)</small>
- Piruna purepecha <small> Warren & González, 1999</small>
- Piruna roeveri <small> (Miller & Miller, 1972)</small>
- Piruna sina <small> Freeman, 1970</small>
References
- Butterfly Net International, Higher Classification of Hesperiidae https://web.archive.org/web/20060517130944/http://www.science.oregonstate.edu/systematics/bnet/hesperii.htm
- Ackery, P., R. de Jong and R. I. Vane-Wright (1999) The Butterflies: Hedyloidea, Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea. in Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies. 1. Evolution, Systematics and Biogeography. Handbook of Zoology 4(35):263-300 (ed. N. P. Kristensen). Berlin: de Gruyter.
- , 1955: A catalogue of the American Hesperiidae indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in The British Museum (Natural History).
- , 1970: Journal of the New York Entomological Society 78: 88-99
- , 1979: Nine new species and seven new records of Mexican Hesperiidae. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 52: 1-13.
- , 1991, A new species of Piruna from Oaxaca, Mexico (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 45 (1): 42-45. Full article: http://peabody.research.yale.edu/jls/pdfs/1990s/1991/1991-45%281%2942-Freeman.pdf.
- , 2004, Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea.
- , 1998: Notes on the genus Piruna in western Mexico, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 9(Suppl. 2): 1-7.
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