Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) Author Cong, Qian Author Zhang, Jing Author Shen, Jinhui Author Grishin, Nick V. text Insecta Mundi 2019 2019-10-11 731 731 1 56 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3677235 1ee19d5d-27cf-4c93-989c-3fe3eb467203 1942-1354 3677235 BA35690A-FC73-4E5A-A805-FE9550275FEC Avestia Grishin , new genus http://zoobank.org/ F54B9854-755F-4050-8D47-88EDB994DCED Type species. Hesperia avesta Hewitson, 1868 . Figure 10. Genomic trees of Erionotini, Carystina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations. Definition. A genus sister to Acerbas de Nicéville, 1895 ( type species Hesperia anthea Hewitson, 1868 ) with Zela de Nicéville, 1895 ( type species Zela zeus de Nicéville, 1895 ), previously placed in Lotongus Distant, 1886 ( type species Eudamus calathus Hewitson, 1876 ), but not monophyletic with it ( Fig. 10 ). Keys to J. 11.4 in Evans (1949) . Morphologically, distinguished from its relatives by hourglass-shaped, terminally bulbous uncus in ventral view; harpe terminally rounded, not prominently separated from ampulla, with a single tooth directed caudad; ventral hindwing yellow band from costa to anal margin, closer to the base, veins brown below (not yellow). In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1838.39.2:A631G, aly2165.18.2:A22T, aly2096.50.1:A679T, aly1405.13.10:C136C (not G), aly537.26.8:A1279A (not G), aly1264.14.2:A37A (not T). Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the type species name. Species included. Only the type species. Parent taxon. Tribe Erionotini Distant, 1886.