Taxonavigation

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Heteropterinae
Genus: Piruna
Species: P. aea – P. ajijiciensis – P. bailowitzi – P. brunnea – P. ceracates – P. chinicuila – P. cyclosticta – P. dampfi – P. gyrans – P. haferniki – P. jonka – P. kemneri – P. maculata – P. microsticta – P. millerorum – P. mullinsi – P. penaea – P. pirus – P. polingii – P. purepecha – P. roeveri – P. sina – P. sticta – P. temaspaltepeca – P. uruapana

Name

Piruna Evans, 1955.

Type species: Pholisora pirus Edwards, 1878.

References

• Butterfly Net International, Higher Classification of Hesperiidae

• Ackery, P.R., de Jong, R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 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. Reference page. 

• Evans, W.H. 1951–55. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae in the British Museum. Pt.1 (1951): x+92pp, pls.1–9; Pt.2 (1952): v.+178pp, pls.10–25; Pt.3 (1953): v+246pp, pls.26–53; Pt.4 (1955): v+499pp, pls. 54–88. Reference page. 

• Freeman, H.A., 1970. A new genus and eight new species of Mexican Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 78(2): 88-99, 10 f, 14 pl. Reference page. 

• Freeman, H. A., 1979. Nine new species and seven new records of Mexican Hesperiidae. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 52: 1-13. Reference page. 

• Freeman, H.A., 1991. A new species of Piruna from Oaxaca, Mexico (Hesperiidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 45 (1): 42-45 PDF. Reference page. 

• Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page. 

• Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 

• Warren, A.D. & L. González-Cota, 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. PDF Reference page. 

• Warren & Gott, 2021. Four new species of Piruna Evans, 1955 from western Mexico (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Heteropterinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 31(2): 101-117. Reference page.