Number: 127
Family: Hesperiidae
Sub-Family: Hesperiinae
Sub-Family: Hesperiinae
Species: Suada albolineata Devyatkin, 2000
Common name(s): The Streaky Grass Bob
Photography location: Huu Lien N.R. (Lang Son Prov.), Tam Dao (Vinh Phuc Prov.)
ID credit: A.L. Monastyrskii
(Huu Lien N.R.)
Another individual, from foothills of Tam Dao, basking in the sun in dense forest.
Ditto
A third specimen, from Tam Dao also, photographed on April 2016
This species is most closely related to S. swerga (De Niceville,
[1884]), the upperside pattern of both species being practically identical.
Fresh specimens of S. albolineata can
be easily distinguished by the strikingly contrasting veins of the underside;
for worn specimens examination of the genitalia is helpful.
I have founded this newly described species at Huu Lien and Tam Dao. It seems to be widely distributed all over the country, its distribution thus overlapping with that of its close relative S. swerga (Devyatkin and al., 2003).
I have founded this newly described species at Huu Lien and Tam Dao. It seems to be widely distributed all over the country, its distribution thus overlapping with that of its close relative S. swerga (Devyatkin and al., 2003).
(Huu Lien N.R.)
References: Devyatkin, A. L. (2000): Hesperiidae of
Vietnam, 6. Two new species of the genera Suada de Niceville, 1895 and Quedara Sw
inhoe, 1907 (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) – PDF here.
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