Scobura
Genus of butterflies
Scobura | |
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Scobura cephala | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Subfamily: | Hesperiinae |
Tribe: | Erionotini |
Genus: | Scobura Elwes & Edwards, 1897 |
Scobura is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Species
- Scobura cephala (Hewitson, 1876) Sikkim to Burma, Thailand
- Scobura phiditia (Hewitson, [1866]) Assam to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
- Scobura isota (Swinhoe, 1893) Sikkim to Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam
- Scobura woolletti (Riley, 1923) Burma, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Borneo
- Scobura tytleri (Evans, 1914) Manipur
- Scobura cephaloides (de Nicéville, [1889]) Burma, Assam, Tonkin
- S. c. kinka Evans, 1949 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hainan
- Scobura coniata Hering, 1918 China
- Scobura eximia Devyatkin, 2002 Vietnam
Biology
The larvae of Scobura coniata feed on Gramineae including Indocalamus[1]
References
- ^ 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
External links
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