Spialia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae, which are mainly found in Africa and Asia. They are commonly called grizzled skippers or sandmen.
As a result of genomic research published in 2020, 3 species of Spialia were moved to the new genus Agyllia and 14 species were moved to the new genus Ernsta.
Species These species belong to the genus Spialia: Spialia ali Oberthür, 1881 Spialia carnea (Reverdin, 1927) Spialia diomus (Hopffer, 1855) (common sandman) Spialia doris (Walker, 1870) (desert grizzled skipper) Spialia ferax (Wallengren, 1863) (ferax grizzled skipper) Spialia fetida Zhdanko, 1992 Spialia galba (Fabricius, 1793) (indian skipper) Spialia geron (Watson, 1893) Spialia irida Zhdanko, 1993 Spialia lugens (Staudinger, 1886) Spialia mafa (Trimen, 1870) (mafa sandman) Spialia orbifer (Hübner, 1823) (orbed red-underwing skipper) Spialia osthelderi (Pfeiffer, 1932) Spialia phlomidis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1845) (persian skipper) Spialia rosae Hernández-Roldán, Dapporto, Dinca, Vicente & Vila, 2016 Spialia sertorius (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) (red-underwing skipper) Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764) (mountain sandman) Spialia struvei (Püngeler, 1914) Spialia therapne (Rambur, 1832) (corsican red-underwing skipper)
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 75
External links Images representing Spialia at Consortium for the Barcode of Life