Spialia

Genus of butterflies

Spialia
Spialia mafa in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Carcharodini
Genus: Spialia
Swinhoe, 1912

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.[1]

Species

These species belong to the genus Spialia:[1][2][3]

  • Spialia ali Oberthür, 1881
  • Spialia carnea (Reverdin, 1927)
  • Spialia diomus (Hopffer, 1855) (common sandman)
  • Spialia doris (Walker, 1870) (desert grizzled skipper)
  • Spialia ferax (Wallengren, 1863) (ferax grizzled skipper)
  • Spialia fetida Zhdanko, 1992
  • Spialia galba (Fabricius, 1793) (indian skipper)
  • Spialia geron (Watson, 1893)
  • Spialia irida Zhdanko, 1993
  • Spialia lugens (Staudinger, 1886)
  • Spialia mafa (Trimen, 1870) (mafa sandman)
  • Spialia orbifer (Hübner, 1823) (orbed red-underwing skipper)
  • Spialia osthelderi (Pfeiffer, 1932)
  • Spialia phlomidis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845) (persian skipper)
  • Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, Dapporto, Dinca, Vicente & Vila, 2016
  • Spialia sertorius (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) (red-underwing skipper)
  • Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764) (mountain sandman)
  • Spialia struvei (Püngeler, 1914)
  • Spialia therapne (Rambur, 1832) (corsican red-underwing skipper)

References

  1. ^ a b Zhang, Jing; Brockmann, Ernst; Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; et al. (2020). "A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini)". Zootaxa. 4748 (1): zootaxa.4748.1.10. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10. PMC 8018707. PMID 32230093.
  2. ^ Spialia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Hernández-Roldán, Juan L.; Dapporto, Leonardo; Dincă, Vlad; Vicente, Juan C.; Hornett, Emily A.; Šíchová, Jindra; Lukhtanov, Vladimir; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger (2016). "Integrative analyses unveil speciation linked to host plant shift in Spialia butterflies". Molecular Ecology. 25 (17): 4267–84. Bibcode:2016MolEc..25.4267H. doi:10.1111/mec.13756. hdl:10230/32118. PMID 27393640.
  • Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
  • Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
  • Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 75
Taxon identifiers
Spialia


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