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
Brownus
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
99C1730A-E965-410D-A15A-D8754C5E3FF0
Type
species.
Paratrytone browni
Bell, 1959
.
Definition.
Unexpectedly, a relative of
Amblyscirtes
Scudder, 1872
(
type
species
Hesperia vialis
Edwards, 1862
) and is sister to
Remella
Hemming, 1939
(
type
species
Hesperia remus
Fabricius, 1798
) with
Mnasicles
Godman, [1901]
(
type
species
Mnasicles geta
Godman, 1901
), which all are in a different subtribe (Moncina) from
Paratrytone
Godman, [1900]
(
type
species
Paratrytone rhexenor
Godman, 1900
) (in Hesperiina) where this lineage was placed previously (
Fig. 11–12
). Distinguished from its relatives by sacculus about as long as vinculum with tegumen in lateral view, valva simple, nearly diamond-shaped with vary narrow harpe ending in a point directed dorsoposteriad and not separated from ampulla, very long antennae reaching apical spots near costa, all (except the small cell spot) forewing spots forming a continuous line (separated by black veins only) and most spots in a line on ventral hindwing. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly28779.8.7:T461C, aly577.34.1:C115G, aly1370.21.5:A2861G, aly531.10.5:G517C, aly2124.3.99:A3193G.
Etymology.
The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, for the
type
species.
Species included.
Only the
type
species.
Parent taxon.
Subtribe Moncina A.
Warren, 2008
.