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
Incisus
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
2ED74AC8-4CCF-4796-952B-0292620F0855
Type
species.
Antigonus incisus
Mabille, 1878
.
Definition.
A genus without close relatives. Formerly placed in
Staphylus
Godman and Salvin, [1896]
,
incisus
is not monophyletic with the
Staphylus
type
species
Helias ascalaphus
Staudinger, 1876
, nor with
Scantilla opites
Godman and Salvin, [1896]
(a junior subjective synonym of
Tagiades vincula
Plötz, 1886
) the
type
species of
Scantilla
Godman and Salvin, [1896]
, a genus-group name treated as a subjective synonym of
Staphylus
(
Fig. 4
). Keys to E.32.35b in
Evans (1953)
. Readily distinguished from its relatives by the wing shape: forewing inner margin concave, hindwing outer margin excavate; forewing with hyaline apical spots;
uncus long and narrow, pointed at the tip, without side processes, no defined gnathos, valva less than twice longer than wide, penis shorter that in
Staphylus
, with a spined cornutus. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly23605.8.3:C247
T
, aly5294.23.1:A538C, aly9588.6.1:
T843
C, aly
1370.7.2
:A1760G, aly345.13.8:A62C
.
Etymology.
The name, a masculine noun in the nominative singular, echoes the
type
species name.
Species included.
The
type
species,
Staphylus fasciatus
Hayward, 1933
and
Pholisora
(?)
angulata
Bell, 1937.
Parent taxon.
Tribe
Carcharodini Verity, 1940
.
Comments.
Steinhauser doubted the placement of some of these species in
Staphylus
on the basis of morphological analysis (
Steinhauser 1989
), and he was correct.