Favria is a monotypic genus of spread-wing skippers in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.
[1] The spinose skipper, a species of arid regions, is found in northern Hungary, Romania, Serbia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria, through Ukraine, southern Russia, up to the Altai and the Amur region.
This species resembles Muschampia tessellum but is usually smaller, has larger white markings on the upper side of the wings and a distinctively yellow underside of the hindwing.
obscurior Staudinger, 1892 ] from Kentei, the upperside of the wings is dull black: at the apex of the cell a small ashy grey lunule.
Specimens from northern Amurland and Dauria with darker ground-colour and smaller white marginal dots are called obscurior [ H. cribrellum ssp.