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Issue: Vol. 3985 No. 4: 14 Jul. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-07-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3985.4.7
Page range: 583–590
Abstract views: 48
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the genus Sovia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from Qinling-Daba Mountains of China

School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No.166 Science Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, P. R. China
School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No.166 Science Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, P. R. China
School of Life Science, Zhengzhou University, No.100 Science Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, P. R. China
School of Life Science, Zhengzhou University, No.100 Science Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, P. R. China
College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, No.2 Mingyuanxilu, Beijing, 100094, P. R. China
School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No.166 Science Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, P. R. China
School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No.166 Science Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450001, P. R. China
skipper male genitalia Sovia lii Sovia lucasii variability distribution fauna taxonomy

Abstract

In this paper, a new species Sovia lii spec. nov. is described from Qinling-Daba Mountains in S. Gansu province and S. Shaanxi province, W. China. Variability of wing pattern, differences with its similar congeners and some biological information of this new taxon are introduced. External variability of Sovia lucasii, which is discovered from Shaanxi for the first time and is sympatric with the new species there, is illustrated and discussed. A brief analysis of the distributional pattern of the genus Sovia is provided. A key to the genus is given.