Perrotia Oberthür, 1916

Cock, Matthew J. W., Congdon, Colin E. & Collins, Steve C., 2014, Observations on the biology of Afrotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Part 6. Hesperiinae incertae sedis: palm feeders, Zootaxa 3831 (1), pp. 1-61 : 5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3831.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2EF9A3DB-0EAA-4384-8ADA-A7D269E5904D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5121684
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6F3587EC-322A-1B4C-AB9F-5836FC6AE61A
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scientific name	Perrotia Oberthür, 1916
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This is a Madagascan endemic genus of about 15 described species, including the synonymised genus Miraja ( Lees et al. 2003) ; considering material collected to date, the radiation is probably at least twice this size (D.C. Lees, pers. comm. 2013). In a future paper, we will report that P. albiplaga (Oberthür) and P. ismael (Oberthür) are bamboo feeders. Here we present limited information on a species reared from palm.