Thoressa

Thoressa
Thoressa varia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Subfamily:	Hesperiinae
Tribe:	Astictopterini
Genus:	Thoressa Swinhoe, 1913
Species
See text

Thoressa is a genus of skipper butterflies. They are (like some other skippers) commonly known as "aces" or "ace butterflies". The genus is endemic to Southeast Asia.

Species include:

• Thoressa aina (de Nicéville, 1889)
• Thoressa astigmata (Swinhoe, 1890) southern spotted ace or unbranded ace
• Thoressa baileyi (South, 1913)
• Thoressa blanchardii (Mabille, 1876)
• Thoressa bivitta (Oberthür, 1886)
• Thoressa cerata (Hewitson, 1876)
• Thoressa cuneomaculata (Murayama, 1995)
• Thoressa decorata (Moore, 1881) decorated ace
  

  Thoressa decorata
• Thoressa evershedi (Evans, 1910) Evershed's ace
• Thoressa fusca (Elwes, [1893])
• Thoressa gupta de Nicéville, 1886
• Thoressa hishikawai (Yoshino, 2003)
• Thoressa honorei (de Nicéville, 1887) Madras ace
• Thoressa horishama (Matsumura, 1910)
• Thoressa horshana (Matsumura)
• Thoressa hyrie (de Nicéville, 1891)
• Thoressa horishana
• Thoressa justini Inoue, 1969
• Thoressa latris (Leech, 1894)
• Thoressa kuata (Evans, 1940)
• Thoressa luanchuanensis (Wang & Niu, 2002)
• Thoressa masoni (Moore, [1879])
• Thoressa monastyrskyi Devyatkin, 1996
• Thoressa masuriensis (Moore, 1878)
• Thoressa nanshaona Murayama, 1995
• Thoressa panda (Evans, 1937)
• Thoressa pandita (de Nicéville, 1885)
• Thoressa pedla (Evans, 1956)
• Thoressa serena (Evans, 1937)
• Thoressa similissima Devyatkin, 2002
• Thoressa sitala (de Nicéville, 1885) Tamil ace or Sitala ace
• Thoressa submacula (Leech, 1890)
• Thoressa thandaunga (Evans, 1926)
• Thoressa varia (Murray, 1875)
• Thoressa viridis (Huang, 2003)
• Thoressa xiaoqingae Huang & Zhan, 2004
• Thoressa zinnia (Evans, 1939)

References

• Funet Taxonomy, distribution

External links

• Images representing Thoressa at Consortium for the Barcode of Life