Spialia (Spialia)

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Pyrginae
Tribus: Carcharodini
Subtribus: Carcharodina
Genus: Spialia
Subgenus: Spialia
Species (10): S. ali – S. carnea – S. galba – S. lugens – S. mafa – S. orbifer – S. rosae – S. sertorius – S. spio – S. therapne

Name

Spialia Swinhoe, 1912: 99.

Type species: Hesperia galba Fabricius, 1793ː 352. By original designation.

Synonyms

• Powellia Tutt, 1906: 218 (praeocc. Maskell, 1879 [Hemiptera]).
  • Type species: Papilio sao Hübner, [1800-1803] (invalid, replaced by Papilio sertorius Hoffmannsegg, 1804), by original designation.
• Neospialia Koçak, 1989 (repl. Powellia Tutt, 1906).
  • Type species: Papilio sao Hübner, [1800-1803] (invalid, replaced by Papilio sertorius Hoffmannsegg, 1804).

Primary references

• de Jong, R. 1978. Monograph of the genus Spialia Charles Swinhoe (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 121: 23-146. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Evans, W.H. 1937. A Catalogue of the African Hesperiidae: indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), London. 1–212. Reference page. 
• Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus III. Pars I. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, [vi] + 487 pp. BHL. Reference page. 
• Higgins, L.G. 1974. A new subspecies of Spialia phlomidis (Herrich-Schaffer) (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Journal of Entomology Series B, Taxonomy 43(1): 83–87. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1974.tb00091.x Reference page. 
• Hernández-Roldán, J.L., Dapporto, L., Dincă, V., Vicente, J.C., Hornett, E.A., Šíchová, J., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G. & Vila, R., 2016. Integrative analyses unveil speciation linked to host plant shift in Spialia butterflies. Molecular Ecology 25(17): 4267–4284. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13756 . Reference page. 
• Swinhoe, C. [1913]. In Moore, Lepidoptera Indica 10, (1912-1913) Hesperiidae, 364pp., pls. 757–835. Reference page. 
• Tutt, J.W. 1905–1906. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera Vol 8, Butterflies (1): 479pp, 20 pls. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co. BHL. Reference page. 
• Zhang, J., Brockmann, E., Cong, Q., Shen, J.H. & Grishin, N.V. 2020. A genomic perspective on the taxonomy of the subtribe Carcharodina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Carcharodini). Zootaxa 4748(1): 182–194. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4748.1.10 Reference page.