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[edit]

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.

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

^ 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

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