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
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Sovia lucasii (Mabille, 1876) – Sikkim China
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Sovia separata (Moore, 1882) – Sikkim, Tibet
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Sovia albipectus (de Nicéville, 1891)
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Sovia subflava (Leech, 1894) – West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan
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Sovia grahami (Evans, 1926)
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S. g. grahami Tibet, Assam
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S. g. miliaohuae Huang, 2003 – Northwest Yunnan
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Sovia fangi Huang & Wu, 2003 – Yunnan[3]
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Sovia hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897) - bicolor ace
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Sovia malta Evans, 1949 Manipur
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Sovia eminens Devyatkin, 1996 Vietnam
Biology
The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina [4]
References
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^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
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^ 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
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^ Huang, Hao (July 2016). "New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae)" (PDF). Atalanta. Deutschen Forschungszentrale für Schmetterlingswanderungen. 47 (1–2): 164. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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^ 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
