Scobura

Scobura
Scobura cephala
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Megathymini
Genus: Scobura
Elwes & Edwards, 1897

Scobura is an Indomalayan genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

  • Scobura cephala (Hewitson, 1876) India ("Sikkim") to Myanmar, Thailand
  • Scobura cephaloides (de Nicéville, [1889]) India (Assam), Myanmar, China (Tonkin)
    • S. c. ephaloides (de Nicéville, [1889])
    • S. c. kinka Evans, 1949 Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Hainan)
  • Scobura coniata Hering, 1918 China
  • Scobura eximia Devyatkin, 2002 Vietnam
  • Scobura isota (Swinhoe, 1893) India ("Sikkim"), Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
  • Scobura phiditia (Hewitson, [1866]) Assam to Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra
  • Scobura tytleri (Evans, 1914) India (Manipur), Laos, Vietnam.
  • Scobura woolletti (Riley, 1923) Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Borneo

Biology

The larvae of Scobura coniata feed on Gramineae including Indocalamus[1]

References

  1. ↑ Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts


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