Sovia

Sovia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realm The genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949

Species

• Sovia fangi – China (Yunnan)
• 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 <small>(de Nicéville, 1891) </small> -> Halpemorpha albipectus in Huang et al. 2019.
• Sovia eminens <small>Devyatkin, 1996</small> Vietnam. -> Halpemorpha eminens in Huang et al. 2019.
• Sovia hyrtacus <small>(de Nicéville, 1897)</small> - bicolor ace -> Halpemorpha hyrtacus in Huang et al. 2019.

Biology

The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

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