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
Livida
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
24179CB6-20EF-4DF2-B545-CFF25554444C
Type
species.
Pythonides assecla
Mabille, 1883
.
Definition.
A genus clearly near
Gindanes
Godman and Salvin, 1895
,
Pythonides
Hübner, [1819]
,
Quadrus
Lindsey, 1925
,
Zera
Evans, 1953
and
Ouleus
Lindsey, 1925
, but without closer affinity to any one of them (
Fig. 5
). The species included here in this genus were formerly placed in
Pythonides
, but are not monophyletic with the
type
species of this genus,
Papilio jovianus
Stoll, 1782
. Keys to E.
41.5 in
Evans (1953)
. Morphologically, distinguished from related genera by the combination of the shape of uncus (flattened at the tip with a short and thin central projection) with the shape of valva (broad at the base with concave costa and diamond-shaped harpe longer than the rest of the valva, with serrated dorsoposterior edge), only one upper spur on hind tibiae, the lack of tuft in hind tibiae and thoracic pouch in males, ventral hindwing mostly pale blue, dorsal hindwing pale blue in males at least near tornus. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly
1672.3.1
:T128G, aly
1672.3.1
:C110G, aly
2618.5.1
:C3626G, aly140.1.2:T1822T (not A), aly
1349.7.9
:C1010C (not G), aly1877.13.1:A785A (not C), aly23605.1.46:T5641T (not A), aly23605.1.46:C5642C (not G), aly536.102.1:C56C (not A), aly
1935.2.1
:G242G (not C), aly345.3.1:C328C (not G), aly767.12.13:C118C (not A).
Etymology.
The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, from the Latin lividus (blue), to indicate the distinctive cornflower blue color of the hindwing in males of the
type
species.
Figure 5.
Genomic trees of
Achlyodini
. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.
Species included.
The
type
species and
Pythonides grandis
Mabille, 1878
.
Parent taxon.
Subtribe
Pythonidina Grishin, 2019
.
Comments.
Another genus that would be very difficult to detect without genomic data, because by appearance the adults of this species do not look noticeably different from
Pythonides
. However, genomic analysis suggests that the two are distant.