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]
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| Sovia hyrtacus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
| Tribe: | Aeromachini |
| Genus: | Sovia Evans, 1949 |
Species
edit- Sovia fangi Huang & Wu, 2003 – China (Yunnan) [3]
- Sovia grahami (Evans, 1926)
- Sovia grahami grahami Tibet, India (Assam)
- Sovia grahami miliaohuae Huang, 2003 – China (Northwest Yunnan)
- Sovia lii Xue, 2013 - China (Shaanxi)
- Sovia liuzihaoi Huang, Wang & Fan, 2020 - China (Yunnan)
- Sovia lucasii (Mabille, 1876) – India (Sikkim), China
- Sovia lucasii magna Evans, 1932
- Sovia malta Evans, 1949 - India (Manipur)
- Sovia separata (Moore, 1882) – India (Sikkim), Tibet
- Sovia subflava (Leech, 1894) – China (West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan)
- Sovia wenhaoi Huang, 2019 – China (Xizang)
Transferred species:
- Sovia albipectus (de Nicéville, 1891) -> Halpemorpha albipectus in Huang et al. 2019.
- Sovia eminens Devyatkin, 1996 Vietnam. -> Halpemorpha eminens in Huang et al. 2019.
- Sovia hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897) - bicolor ace -> Halpemorpha hyrtacus in Huang et al. 2019.
Biology
editThe larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina [4]
References
edit- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
- ^ 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
- ^ Huang, Hao (July 2016). "New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae)" (PDF). Atalanta. 47 (1–2). Deutschen Forschungszentrale für Schmetterlingswanderungen: 164. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ 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
External links
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