Spialia

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Spialia
Mafa Sandman Spialia mafa.jpg
Spialia mafa in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania
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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.

Contents

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]

Related Research Articles

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<i>Muschampia lavatherae</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Carcharodus</i> Genus of butterflies

Carcharodus is a Palearctic genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

<i>Favria cribrellum</i> Species of butterfly

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<i>Muschampia</i> Genus of butterflies

Muschampia is a Palearctic genus of spread-winged skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carcharodini</span> Tribe of butterflies

The Carcharodini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. They are a very diverse but quite plesiomorphic and inconspicuous group distributed throughout the tropics.

<i>Muschampia baeticus</i> Species of butterfly

Muschampia baeticus, the southern marbled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North Africa, south-western Europe, Italy and Anatolia up to Afghanistan.

<i>Pyrgus malvoides</i> Species of skipper butterfly genus Pyrgus

Pyrgus malvoides, the Southern Grizzled Skipper, is a species of skipper.

<i>Spialia delagoae</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia delagoae, the Delagoa sandman or Delagoa grizzled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Namibia, Botswana, Transvaal, Eswatini, KwaZulu-Natal, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Kenya. The habitat consists of moist and dry savanna.

Spialia depauperata, the wandering sandman or deprived grizzled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Kenya to Natal and in Uganda.

<i>Spialia dromus</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia dromus, the forest sandman, dromus grizzled skipper or large grizzled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in tropical Africa. In South Africa it is found along the eastern Cape coast to KwaZulu-Natal into Eswatini. It is also present in Mpumalanga and the Limpopo Province into northern Gauteng and the extreme north-west of the North West Province.

<i>Spialia diomus</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia diomus, the common sandman or Diomus grizzled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in tropical Africa and south-western Arabia.

<i>Spialia spio</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia spio, the mountain sandman or Spio grizzled skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in tropical Africa and south-western Arabia. It is found in eastern South Africa.

<i>Spialia colotes</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia colotes, the Bushveld sandman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Herbert Druce in 1875. It is found in Angola, Botswana and from South Africa to Ethiopia and south-western Arabia.

<i>Spialia mafa</i> Species of butterfly

Spialia mafa, the Mafa grizzled skipper or Mafa sandman, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in south-western Africa, in KwaZulu-Natal, Botswana, Zimbabwe and from the Cape in South Africa to Sudan and southern Arabia.

Spialia rosae is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found only in Spain.

<i>Agyllia</i> Genus of butterflies

Agyllia is a genus of spread-wing skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae, erected in 2020. There are at least three described species in Agyllia, all found in Africa. These species were formerly members of the genus Spialia.

<i>Ernsta</i> Genus of butterflies

Ernsta is a genus of spread-wing skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. There are about 14 described species in Ernsta, found mainly in Africa. These species were formerly members of the genus Spialia.

References

  1. 1 2 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.