Suada (butterfly)

Suada
Suada swerga
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Erionotini
Genus:	Suada de Nicéville, 1895 [1]

Suada is a genus of grass skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Species

• Suada swerga (de Nicéville, [1884]) Ceylon, Malaya, Java, Vietnam, Burma, Thailand, Laos
• Suada albolineata Devyatkin, 2000 Vietnam
• Suada albinus (Semper, 1892) Philippines
• Suada cataleucos (Staudinger, 1889) Philippines, Palawan

Biology

The larvae feed on Gramineae including Dendrocalamus. [2]

• 
  Suada swerga De Nicéville, 1883, Suada albinus Semper, 1892 and Suada cataleucos (Staudinger, 1889) in Seitz

References

1. de Nicéville, 1895 On new and little-known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan Region J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 9 (3): 259-321, pl. N-Q, (4): 366-410
2. Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández, 2010. HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. nhm hosts

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Suada de Nicéville, 1895 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms