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
Dotta
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
1579BF7B-B1B2-4B01-B428-6593A087A665
Type
species.
Ceratrichia stellata
Mabille, 1891
.
Definition.
A genus without close relatives, but not monophyletic with
Astictopterus
C. and R. Felder, 1860 (
type
species
Astictopterus jama
C. and R. Felder, 1860),
Kedestes
Watson, 1893
(
type
species
Hesperia lepenula
Wallengren, 1857
), or
Isoteinon
C. and R. Felder, 1862 (
type
species
Isoteinon lamprospilus
C. and R. Felder, 1862) (
Fig. 9
). Keys to V.27.12 or IV.
24.4 in
Evans (1937)
. Distinguished from its relatives by long gnathos well-separated from and about the same length as uncus, terminally narrowing uncus, harpe terminally bulbous, finely serrated, separated from ampulla by a gap, black edged pale dots or spots on ventral hindwing, pale spots or dots above. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly274.20.6:A1605C, aly84.28.1:G1033C, aly274.20.6:T1601A, aly144.50.1:G193A, aly3194.1.2:C65A.
Etymology.
The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the white dots on the wings.
Species included.
The
type
species and
Cyclopides callicles
Hewitson, 1868
(formerly placed in
Kedestes
).
Parent taxon.
Tribe Astictopterini Swinhoe, 1912.
Comments.
Without DNA analysis, it would be challenging to pull these two species out of the genera they have been assigned to and join them in a single genus. Nevertheless, retrospectively observed genitalic similarity agrees with such placement.