Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)
Author
Cong, Qian
Author
Zhang, Jing
Author
Shen, Jinhui
Author
Grishin, Nick V.
text
Insecta Mundi
2019
2019-10-11
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3677235
1ee19d5d-27cf-4c93-989c-3fe3eb467203
1942-1354
3677235
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Viuria
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
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Figure 3.
Genomic trees of Tagiadinae. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.
Type
species.
Pellicia licisca
Plötz, 1882
.
Definition.
A sister genus to
Viola
Evans, 1953
, distant from
Pachyneuria
Mabille, 1888
(
type
species
Pachyneuria obscura
Mabille, 1888
), where species of this genus were formerly placed (
Fig. 4
). Keys to E.
20.7 in
Evans (1953)
. Differs from
Pachyneuria
by the presence of long tufts of scales near hindwing costa above in males and swollen hindwing vein Sc+R
1
, similar to
Viola
and
Nisoniades
Hübner, [1819]
, among others. Differ from
Viola
and other genera in genitalia and diagnosed by asymmetric uncus with asymmetric processes, reduced harpe of the right valva compared to the expanded rounded ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1222.46.1:A28C, aly207.4.6:C1025G, aly
1019.7.7
:T59A, aly
2012.7.7
:C98G, aly638.27.5:T694A.
Etymology.
The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, a fusion of
Vi
[ola] and [Pachyne]
uria
.
Species included.
The
type
species,
Pachyneuria lista
Evans, 1953
, and
Pellicia herophile
Hayward, 1940
.
Parent taxon.
Tribe
Carcharodini Verity, 1940
.