Sovia
Creators: name: Xue, Guo-Xi
name: Li, Meng
name: Nan, Wen-Hao
name: Jia, Xing-Long
name: Huang, Si-Yao
name: Sun, Hao
name: Li, Xiao-Juan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Sovia

description: Key to the species of the genus Sovia
1 Forewing with two separated cell spots.................................................................... 2
- Forewing with one spot across the cell..................................................................... 5
2 Ventral side of hindwing with basal half milk white and outer half purple-brown........................... S. hyrtacus
- Ventral side of hindwing checkered with small whitish and brown spots, a large brown spot always in spaces m1–m2....... 3
3 Two cell spots on forewing close to each other, spot in space m3 located in the middle of the one in m2 and the lower cell spot; tornus of hindwing slightly pointed................................................................ S. ueharai
- Two cell spots on forewing quite separated, spot in space m3 closer to that in m2 than to the lower cell spot; tornus of hindwing rounded............................................................................................ 4
4 On the dorsal side of forewing, the upper end of stigma located in the middle of the lower cell spot and the spot in space m 3; markings on the ventral side of hindwing contrasting, submarginal dark spots large, some of which being the same size of the dark spot in spaces m1–m2...................................................................... S. eminens
- On the dorsal side of forewing, the upper end of stigma closer to the lower cell spot than to the spot in space m3; markings on the ventral side of hindwing dull, submarginal dark spots small, always smaller than the dark spot in spaces m1–m2.........
........................................................................................... S. albipectus 5 Ventral side of hindwing bright yellow, space 1b black................................................ S. subflava
- Ventral side of hindwing ochreous brown to dull yellow, space 1b with the same color as other part of the wing, or slightly paler............................................................................................... 6
6 Cilia not checkered.................................................................................... 7
- Cilia chekered....................................................................................... 9
7 Dorsal side of forewing with the spot in space m3 nearer to the cell spot than to the one in space m2............... S. malta
- Dorsal side of forewing with the spot in space m3 nearer to that in space m2 than to the cell spot....................... 8
8 Uncus tapered to a slender stalk before the flat tip...................................................... S. fangi
- Uncus wide, with a roundish tip.................................................................. S. grahami
9 Cell spot on forewing slanted outwards or almost perpendicular to dorsum, tip of uncus nearly flat.................. S. lii
- Cell spot on forewing slanted inwards, tip of uncus rounded................................................. 10
10 Ventral side of hindwing with a series of submarginal spots, male genitalia with the lateral process long and bent... S. lucasii
- Ventral side of hindwing usually unmarked, male genitalia with the lateral process short and straight........... S. separata
description: Published as part of Xue, Guo-Xi, Li, Meng, Nan, Wen-Hao, Jia, Xing-Long, Huang, Si-Yao, Sun, Hao & Li, Xiao-Juan, 2015, A new species of the genus Sovia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Qinling-Daba Mountains of China, pp. 583-590 in Zootaxa 3985 (4) on pages 586-587, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/239172