Sovia
| Sovia | |
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| Sovia hyrtacus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
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| 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[]
- (Mabille, 1876) Sikkim, China
- S. l. magna Evans, 1932
- (Moore, 1882) Sikkim, Tibet
- Sovia albipectus (de Nicéville, 1891)
- (Leech, 1894) West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan
- (Evans, 1926)
- S. g. grahami Tibet, Assam
- S. g. miliaohuae Huang, 2003 Northwest Yunnan
- Huang & Wu, 2003 Northwest Yunnan
- Sovia hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897) - bicolor ace
- Evans, 1949 Manipur
- Devyatkin, 1996 Vietnam
Biology[]
The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina [3]
References[]
- ^ 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
- ^ 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'
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