Pithauria murdava is a skipper butterfly in the family Hesperiidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1866.

Upperside olive brown: forewing with the base grey, with six small yellow spots, two within the extremity of the cell, two near the costa, one-third from the apex, and two midway beneath; hindwing grey to beyond the middle.

Underside pale yellowish brown; disk of forewing blackish, spots as above: hindwing with indistinct submarginal and discal pale yellowish spots.

Abdomen above with greyish-brown segmental bands.

Palpi, abdomen, and legs beneath dull yellow.