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
BA35690A-FC73-4E5A-A805-FE9550275FEC
Anaxas
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
FE71A883-25C6-491B-B1BE-3EC4F82C62B1
Type
species.
Antigonus obliqua
Plötz, 1884
.
Figure 6.
Genomic trees of
Erynnini
. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.
Definition.
A likely sister genus to
Potamanaxas
Lindsey, 1925
, and thus not monophyletic with
Anastrus
Hübner, [1824]
(
type
species
Anastrus obscurus
Hübner, [1824]
), where these species were formerly placed (
Fig. 6
). The need for this genus has been suggested previously (
Austin 1998
). Keys to F.6.3. in
Evans (1953)
. Genitalia illustrated by Grishin in his fig. 30–39 (
Grishin 2012
). Morphologically, distinguished from
Anastrus
and
Echelatus
by having processes on sacculus of the valva and a second pair of uncus arms, from the ventral side of uncus, similar to some species of its sister
Potamanaxas
, but uncus itself is essentially undivided with arms reduced to small knobs. Primary uncus arms are well-developed in
Potamanaxas
. In facies, characterized by brown wings above with several dark-brown stripes and often with some bluish scaling between the stripes. Below, wings plain brown and some species with slate overscaling on the posterior third of hindwing. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly3570.7.4:A85T, aly3570.7.4:G86C, aly9673.2.5:T298A, aly
1735.8.1
:C820C (not T), aly16.28.2:C88C (not A), aly16.28.2:A89A (not T).
Etymology.
The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, a group of species that were formerly placed in
Ana
[strus], but are phylogenetically closer to [Potamana]
xas
.
Species included.
The
type
species, its sister
Anastrus isidro
Grishin, 2012
and
Pellicia petius
Möschler, 1877
.
Parent taxon.
Subtribe Erynnina Brues and Carpenter, 1932.