Spialia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, which are mainly found in Africa and Asia. They are commonly called grizzled skippers or sandmen.
As a result of genomic research published in 2020, 3 species of Spialia were moved to the new genus Agyllia and 14 species were moved to the new genus Ernsta.
Species
These species belong to the genus Spialia:
- Spialia ali <small>Oberthür, 1881</small>
- Spialia carnea <small>(Reverdin, 1927)</small>
- Spialia diomus <small>(Hopffer, 1855)</small> (common sandman)
- Spialia doris <small>(Walker, 1870)</small> (desert grizzled skipper)
- Spialia ferax <small>(Wallengren, 1863)</small> (ferax grizzled skipper)
- Spialia fetida <small>Zhdanko, 1992</small>
- Spialia galba <small>(Fabricius, 1793)</small> (indian skipper)
- Spialia geron <small>(Watson, 1893)</small>
- Spialia irida <small>Zhdanko, 1993</small>
- Spialia lugens <small>(Staudinger, 1886)</small>
- Spialia mafa <small>(Trimen, 1870)</small> (mafa sandman)
- Spialia orbifer <small>(Hübner, 1823)</small> (orbed red-underwing skipper)
- Spialia osthelderi <small>(Pfeiffer, 1932)</small>
- Spialia phlomidis <small>(Herrich-Schäffer, 1845)</small> (persian skipper)
- Spialia rosae <small>Hernández-Roldán, Dapporto, Dinca, Vicente & Vila, 2016</small>
- Spialia sertorius <small>(Hoffmannsegg, 1804)</small> (red-underwing skipper)
- Spialia spio <small>(Linnaeus, 1764)</small> (mountain sandman)
- Spialia struvei <small>(Püngeler, 1914)</small>
- Spialia therapne <small>(Rambur, 1832)</small> (corsican red-underwing skipper)
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