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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Hesperiidae
Subfamilia: Hesperiinae
Tribus: Aeromachini
Genus: Thoressa
Species: T. aina –T. astigmata – T. baileyi – T. bivitta –T. blanchardii –T. cerata –T. decorata – T. evershedi – T. fusca –T. gupta –T. honorie –T. hyrie –T. justini –T. kuata –T. latris – T. luanchuanensis – T. masoni – T. masuriensis –T. monastyrskyi –T. nanshaona – T. panda –T. pandita –T. pedla –T. serena –T. similissima –T. sitala –T. submacula – T. thandaunga –T. varia –T. viridis –̺T. xiaoqingae –T. yingqii –T. zinnia
Name

Thoressa Swinhoe, [1913].

Type species: Pamphila masoni Moore, [1879]ː 842, Pl.LII Fig.5 by original designation.
Synonymy

Thoressa Swinhoe, [1913]ː 284; Hemming, 1967ː 441; Bridges, 1994ː IX.69, et seq.
References

Bridges, C.A. 1994. Catalogue of the Family-Group, Genus:-Group and Species-Group Names of the Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) of the World. Bridges, Urbana, Illinois. BHL Reference page.
Devyatkin, A.L. 2002. Hesperiidae of Vietnam, 11. New taxa of the subfamily Hesperiinae (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Atalanta 33(1/2): 127–135. Reference page.
Hemming, A. F., 1967. The generic names of the butterflies and their type species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 1967, Suppl. 9: 1-509.Reference page.
Huang, H. & Zhan, C.H. 2004. Notes on the genera Thoressa and Pedesta, with description of a new species from South China (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 57: 179–186. Reference page.
Huang, H. 2011. Notes on the genus Thoressa Swinhoe, [1913] from China, with the description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae). Atalanta 42(1-4): 193-200. Reference page.
Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., Kunte, K. & Fan, X.L. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology 44: 163–178. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12322 Open access. Reference page.
Moore, F. 1865. On the lepidopterous insects of Bengal. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 33(1): 755–823, Pls. XLI–XLIII. Reference page.
Moore, F. [1879]. A list of the Lepidopterous insects collected by Mr. Ossian Limborg in Upper Tenasserim with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878(4): 821-859, pls. 51-53. Reference page.
Swinhoe, C. [1913]. In Moore, Lepidoptera Indica 10, (1912-1913) Hesperiidae, 364pp., pls. 757–835. Reference page.
Wang, Z.Q. & Yuan, F. 2003. Two new species of the Genus: Thoressa (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 25(1): 61–66. Reference page.

Vernacular names
日本語: コチャバネセセリ属

Thoressa is a genus of skipper butterflies erected by Charles Swinhoe in 1913. They (like some other skippers) are commonly known as "aces" or "ace butterflies". The genus is endemic to Southeast Asia with many species endemic to China.

Species include:

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

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

Biology

The larvae feed on Gramineae including Sasa[1]
References

Robinson, Gaden S.; Ackery, Phillip R.; Kitching, Ian J.; Beccaloni, George W.; Hernández, Luis M. (2010). "Search the database - introduction and help". HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London.

Savela, Markku (February 11, 2019). "Thoressa Swinhoe, [1913]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved April 10, 2020. Taxonomy, distribution

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