Sovia Explained

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

• Sovia fangi – China (Yunnan) ^[3]
• Sovia grahami
  • Sovia grahami grahami Tibet, India (Assam)
  • Sovia grahami miliaohuae – China (Northwest Yunnan)
• Sovia lii - China (Shaanxi)
• Sovia liuzihaoi - China (Yunnan)
• Sovia lucasii – India (Sikkim), China
  • Sovia lucasii magna
• Sovia malta - India (Manipur)
• Sovia separata – India (Sikkim), Tibet
• Sovia subflava – China (West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan)
• Sovia wenhaoi – 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

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

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

Notes and References

1. [Adalbert Seitz|Seitz, A.]
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 . New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae) . Atalanta . July 2016 . 47 . 1–2 . 164 . 8 September 2022 . Deutschen Forschungszentrale für Schmetterlingswanderungen.
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