Sovia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realmSeitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter. Theclinae, Poritiinae, Hesperiidae. Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9: 799-1107, pls. 138-175. The genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949 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
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 (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 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
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
Sovia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms