Sovia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Aeromachini
Genus: Sovia
Species: S. fangi – S. grahami – S. lii – S. lucasii – S. malta – S. separata – S. subflava – S. wenhaoi
Name

Sovia Evans, 1949: 27, 246.

Type species: Hesperilla lucasii Mabille, 1876.
References
Primary references

Evans, W.H. 1949. A catalogue of the Hesperiidae from Europe, Asia and Australia in the British Museum (Natural History). xix+502pp., 53 pls. BMNH, London. Reference page.

Additional references

Huang, H. 2003. A list of butterflies collected from Nujiang (Lou Tse Kiang) and Dulongjiang, China, with descriptions of new species, new subspecies and revisional notes. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 55: 3–114. PDF. Reference page.
Huang, H. 2019. New or little known butterflies from China - 3 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae et Hesperiidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 78: 203–255. PDF. Reference page.
Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., Kunte, K. & Fan, X.L. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology 44: 163–178. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12322 Open access. Reference page.

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 lucasii (Mabille, 1876) Sikkim, China
S. l. magna Evans, 1932
Sovia separata (Moore, 1882) Sikkim, Tibet
Sovia albipectus (de Nicéville, 1891)
Sovia subflava (Leech, 1894) West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan
Sovia grahami (Evans, 1926)
S. g. grahami Tibet, Assam
S. g. miliaohuae Huang, 2003 Northwest Yunnan
Sovia fangi Huang & Wu, 2003 Northwest Yunnan
Sovia hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897) - bicolor ace
Sovia malta Evans, 1949 Manipur
Sovia eminens Devyatkin, 1996 Vietnam

Biology

The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina [3]
References

Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175.
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

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

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database