Sovia

Sovia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realm[1] The genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949 [2]

Sovia
Sovia hyrtacus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Hesperiidae
Subfamily:
Hesperiinae
Tribe:
Aeromachini
Genus:
Sovia

Species
  • Sovia lucasii (Mabille, 1876) Sikkim, China
    • S. l. magna Evans, 1932
  • Sovia separata (Moore, 1882) Sikkim, Tibet
  • Sovia albipectus (de Nicéville, 1891)
  • Sovia subflava (Leech, 1894) West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan
  • Sovia grahami (Evans, 1926)
    • S. g. grahami Tibet, Assam
    • S. g. miliaohuae Huang, 2003 Northwest Yunnan
    • Sovia fangi Huang & Wu, 2003 Northwest Yunnan
  • Sovia hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897) - bicolor ace
  • Sovia malta Evans, 1949 Manipur
  • Sovia eminens Devyatkin, 1996 Vietnam

Biology

The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina [3]

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References
  1. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
  2. Evans, 1949 A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum Cat. Hesp. Europe Asia Australia Brit. Mus. : 1-502, pl. 1-53
  3. Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts
  • Sovia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'


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