Scobura Explained

Scobura is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

• Scobura cephala (Hewitson, 1876) Sikkim to Burma, Thailand
• Scobura phiditia (Hewitson, [1866]) Assam to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
• Scobura isota (Swinhoe, 1893) Sikkim to Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
• Scobura woolletti (Riley, 1923) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Borneo
• Scobura tytleri (Evans, 1914) Manipur
• Scobura cephaloides (de Nicéville, [1889]) Burma, Assam, Tonkin
  • S. c. kinka Evans, 1949 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan
• Scobura coniata Hering, 1918 China
• Scobura eximia Devyatkin, 2002 Vietnam

Biology

The larvae of Scobura coniata feed on Gramineae including Indocalamus^[1]

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Funet

Notes and References

1. 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