Spialia galba (Fabricius)

Arigela, Ravi Kiran, Kathula, Tarun, Kumar, Ramesh, Deroliya, Purushottam Kumar, Jeevith, S. & Singh, Rajeev Kumar, 2024, Tephrosia purpurea, the potential nectar source for the butterflies in Jodhpur, an arid zone of Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India, Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Naturae 9, pp. 85-108 : 91

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https://doi.org/10.24917/25438832.9.5

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scientific name

Spialia galba (Fabricius)
status

 

3) Spialia galba (Fabricius) View in CoL – Asian Grizzled Skipper ( Fig. 5C View Fig – Appendix 1)

General range of occurrence: South and Southeast Asia: Sri Lanka, India, to the Shan states in northern Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and Hainan ( Watson, 1891; Evans, 1932, 1949; Varshney, Smetacek, 2015)

Occurrence and status in India: Very common up to an altitude of 1800 m ( Haribal, 1992) Host plants of the larvae: Alcea rosea L., Glycine max (L.) Merr., Hibiscus micranthus L.f., Melochia corchorifolia L., Sida rhombifolia L., Urena lobata L., Waltheria indica L. ( Haribal, 1992; Kunte, 2000; Kalesh, Prakash, 2007; Ravikanthachari et al., 2018)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Spialia

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