Thoressa
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| Genus: | Thoressa Swinhoe, 1913
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Thoressa is a genus of skipper butterflies. They are (like some other skippers) commonly known as "aces" or "ace butterflies". The genus is endemic to Southeast Asia.
Species include:
- Thoressa aina (de Nicéville, 1889)
- Thoressa astigmata (Swinhoe, 1890) southern spotted ace or unbranded ace
- Thoressa baileyi (South, 1913)
- Thoressa blanchardii (Mabille, 1876)
- Thoressa bivitta (Oberthür, 1886)
- Thoressa cerata (Hewitson, 1876)
- Thoressa cuneomaculata (Murayama, 1995)
- Thoressa decorata (Moore, 1881) decorated ace
Thoressa decorata - Thoressa evershedi (Evans, 1910) Evershed's ace
- Thoressa fusca (Elwes, [1893])
- Thoressa gupta de Nicéville, 1886
- Thoressa hishikawai (Yoshino, 2003)
- Thoressa honorei (de Nicéville, 1887) Madras ace
- Thoressa horishama (Matsumura, 1910)
- Thoressa horshana (Matsumura)
- Thoressa hyrie (de Nicéville, 1891)
- Thoressa horishana
- Thoressa justini Inoue, 1969
- Thoressa latris (Leech, 1894)
- Thoressa kuata (Evans, 1940)
- Thoressa luanchuanensis (Wang & Niu, 2002)
- Thoressa masoni (Moore, [1879])
- Thoressa monastyrskyi Devyatkin, 1996
- Thoressa masuriensis (Moore, 1878)
- Thoressa nanshaona Murayama, 1995
- Thoressa panda (Evans, 1937)
- Thoressa pandita (de Nicéville, 1885)
- Thoressa pedla (Evans, 1956)
- Thoressa serena (Evans, 1937)
- Thoressa similissima Devyatkin, 2002
- Thoressa sitala (de Nicéville, 1885) Tamil ace or Sitala ace
- Thoressa submacula (Leech, 1890)
- Thoressa thandaunga (Evans, 1926)
- Thoressa varia (Murray, 1875)
- Thoressa viridis (Huang, 2003)
- Thoressa xiaoqingae Huang & Zhan, 2004
- Thoressa zinnia (Evans, 1939)
Biology
The larvae feed on Gramineae including Sasa[1]
References
- Funet Taxonomy, distribution
External links
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