{{Short description|Species of butterfly}} {{Speciesbox | image = Parnara bada-Kadavoor-2016-09-09-001.jpg | image_caption = | status = | status_system = | taxon = Parnara bada | authority = (Moore, 1878) | synonyms = *''Hesperia bada'' <small>Moore, 1878</small> *''Baoris sida'' <small>Waterhouse, 1934</small> }}
'''''Parnara bada''''', the '''African straight swift''', '''grey swift''' or '''Ceylon swift''',<ref name=Smetacek/> is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in south-east Asia, from India through China to Indonesia, as well as the north-east coast of Australia.<ref name=Smetacek>{{Cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287980260|title=A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India|last1=R.K.|first1=Varshney|last2=Smetacek|first2=Peter|publisher=Butterfly Research Centre, Bhimtal & Indinov Publishing, New Delhi|year=2015|isbn=978-81-929826-4-9|location=New Delhi|pages=56|doi=10.13140/RG.2.1.3966.2164}}</ref><ref name=SwinhoeIndica>{{Source-attribution|sentence=yes|{{Cite book|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/103495#page/343/mode/1up|title=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X |last=Swinhoe|first=Charles|author-link=Charles Swinhoe|publisher=Lovell Reeve and Co.|year=1912–1913|location=London|pages=329–330}}}}</ref>
==Description== {{Entomology glossary hatnote}} {{Blockquote|Male. A smaller insect than ''Parnara guttata''. Upperside dark brown, without the ochreous tint, the hair-like setae on the forewing and the hairs covering the hindwing as in ''guttata'', but grey in colour, not dull ochreous as in that species. Upperside with the spots white, not ochreous-white, and all very small. Forewing with the discal spots disposed as in ''guttata'', but in all the examples before us there are only two sub-apical spots, the uppermost one being absent, the two sub-apical quite minute, being mere dots, the other three increasing in size hindwards, all three quite small, and there are no cell spots. Hindwing with three dots in the disc in an outward curve, one in each of interspaces 2, 3 and 4. Cilia cinereous, with a brownish base, becoming whitish hindwards. Underside paler and duller in colour, much as in ''guttata'', but the colour is somewhat more ochreous, the spots as on the upperside. Antennae, palpi, head and body similar.
Female like the male, the spots larger, increasing in size hindwards, only two sub-apical dots, sometimes one and sometimes two cell dots, the usual spot against the sub-median vein in continuation of the discal series, so prominent in ''guttata'', altogether absent, or only very slightly indicated; in the hindwing the three or four discal spots are minute.|author=Charles Swinhoe|source=Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. X<ref name=SwinhoeIndica/>}}
The wingspan is about 30 mm.
The larvae feed on ''Leersia hexandra'', ''Oryza sativa'', ''Saccharum officinarum'' and ''Bambusa''.
<gallery> File:African Straight Swift Parnara Bada (5799482956).jpg|Upper side File:Parnara bada at Kadavoor.jpg|Upper side File:Parnara bada mating at Kadavoor.jpg|Mating pair File:Parnara_bada_sida.jpg|Illustration </gallery>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/hesp/bada.html Australian Insects] *[http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Parnara_bada Australian Faunal Directory] *{{Commons category-inline}}
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Category:Baorini Category:Butterflies of Asia Category:Butterflies of Australia Category:Butterflies described in 1878 Category:Taxa named by Frederic Moore
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