Biology:Spialia

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Short description: Genus of butterflies

Spialia
Mafa Sandman Spialia mafa.jpg
Spialia mafa in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Carcharodini
Genus: Spialia
Swinhoe, 1912

Spialia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, which are mainly found in Africa and Asia. They are commonly called grizzled skippers or sandmen.

As a result of genomic research published in 2020, 3 species of Spialia were moved to the new genus Agyllia and 14 species were moved to the new genus Ernsta.[1]

Species

These species belong to the genus Spialia:[1][2][3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Zhang, Jing; Brockmann, Ernst; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui et al. (2020). "A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini)". Zootaxa 4748 (1). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10. PMC 8018707. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4748.1.10. 
  2. Spialia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Hernández-Roldán, Juan L.; Dapporto, Leonardo; Dincă, Vlad; Vicente, Juan C.; Hornett, Emily A.; Šíchová, Jindra; Lukhtanov, Vladimir; Talavera, Gerard et al. (2016). "Integrative analyses unveil speciation linked to host plant shift in Spialia butterflies". Molecular Ecology 25 (17): 4267–84. doi:10.1111/mec.13756. PMID 27393640. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1307640 entry