Sovia

Sovia is a genus of grass skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae. The species are found in the Indomalayan realm The genus was erected by William Harry Evans in 1949

Species

 * Sovia fangi Huang & Wu, 2003 – China (Yunnan)
 * Sovia grahami (Evans, 1926)
 * S. g. grahami Tibet, India (Assam)
 * S. g. miliaohuae Huang, 2003 – China (Northwest Yunnan)
 * Sovia lii Xue, 2013 - China (Shaanxi)
 * Sovia liuzihaoi Huang, Wang & Fan, 2020 - China (Yunnan)
 * Sovia lucasii (Mabille, 1876) – India (Sikkim), China
 *  S. l. magna Evans, 1932
 * Sovia malta Evans, 1949 - India (Manipur)
 * Sovia separata (Moore, 1882) – India (Sikkim), Tibet
 * Sovia subflava (Leech, 1894) – China (West Sichuan, Northwest Yunnan)
 * Sovia wenhaoi Huang, 2019 – China (Xizang)

Transferred species:
 * Sovia albipectus  (de Nicéville, 1891) -> Halpemorpha albipectus in Huang et al. 2019.
 * Sovia eminens Devyatkin, 1996 Vietnam. -> Halpemorpha eminens in Huang et al. 2019.
 * Sovia hyrtacus (de Nicéville, 1897)  - bicolor ace -> Halpemorpha hyrtacus in Huang et al. 2019.

Biology
The larvae feed on Gramineae and Hibisceae including Kydia calycina