Biology:Sovia

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Short description: Genus of butterflies

Sovia
Sovia hyrtacus 4946.jpg
Sovia hyrtacus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Tribe: Aeromachini
Genus: 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]

Species

  • Sovia fangi Huang & Wu, 2003 – China (Yunnan) [3]
  • Sovia grahami (Evans, 1926)
    • S. g. grahami Tibet, India (Assam)
    • S. g. 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
    • S. l. 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

The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina [4]

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. Huang, Hao (July 2016). "New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae)". Atalanta (Deutschen Forschungszentrale für Schmetterlingswanderungen) 47 (1-2): 164. https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Atalanta_47_0161-0173.pdf. Retrieved 8 September 2022. 
  4. 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

  • Sovia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'

Wikidata ☰ Q1760797 entry