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Spialia spio Linnaeus 1764
Description
211. Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764)
WL: 13mm. S. spio is one of the smallest skippers and is reported to occur in all types of savanna and in agricultural lands throughout tropical Africa and southern Arabia. Known host-plants are several species of Malvaceae, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae.
Studied material. Quinara: Cantanha (PNLC), 17.07.2006, 1♂ (BS 25733).
Previous references. Regions: Bolama, Oio. Authors: Aurivillius (1909), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de- Carvalho (1987), Larsen (2005), Mendes et al. (2007).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- PNLC
- Event date
- 2006-07-17
- Verbatim event date
- 2006-07-17
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Spialia
- Species
- spio
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spialia spio Linnaeus, 1764 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1764) Museum Ludovicae Ulricae Reginae. Salvius, Holmiae, [viii] + 720 pp.
- Mendes, L. F., Bivar-de-Sousa, A. & Consciencia, S. (2007) Novos dados sobre os lepidopteros diurnos (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea e Papilionoidea) da Guine-Bissau. I - Introducao e Hesperiidae. Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa, 41, 209 - 221.