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.
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| Spialia mafa in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Tribe: | Carcharodini |
| Genus: | Spialia Swinhoe, 1912 |
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 edit
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 edit
- ^ 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). doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10. PMC 8018707.
- ^ Spialia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ 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. 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
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