Sovia

Short description: Genus of butterflies

Sovia

Sovia hyrtacus
Scientific classification
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]

## Contents

* 1 Species
* 2 Biology
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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

* Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

## External links

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

Wikidata ☰ Q1760797 entry

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