Sovia
Introduction '''''Sovia''''' is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realmThe genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949
Species *''Sovia fangi''  – China (Yunnan)  *''Sovia grahami'' **''S. g. grahami'' Tibet, India (Assam)  **''S. g. miliaohuae''  – China (Northwest Yunnan) *''Sovia lii''  - China (Shaanxi)*''Sovia liuzihaoi''  - China (Yunnan) *''Sovia lucasii''  – India (Sikkim), China**'' S. l. 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''
References * Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links * ''Sovia'' at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'