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
Chitta
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
BCD865CA-926C-43DB-9EEB-8E14E7296149
Type
species.
Phlebodes chittara
Schaus, 1902
.
Definition.
A possible sister to the clade with
Thoon
Godman, [1900]
(
type
species
Proteides modius
Mabille, 1889
) and
Halotus
Godman, [1900]
(
type
species
Hesperilla saxula
Mabille, 1891
, a subjective junior synonym of
Hesperia angellus
Plötz, 1886
) (
Fig. 11–12
). Not monophyletic with
Psoralis
Mabille, 1904
(
type
species
Psoralis sabaeus
Mabille, 1904
, currently considered a junior subjective synonym of
Pamphila idee
Weeks, 1901
) where it was placed previously (
Fig. 11–12
). Immediately distinguished from
Psoralis
by greenish ventral colors and a pattern of four pale dots on hindwing below, indeed reminiscent of
Thoon
. Genitalia illustrated by
Bell (1959
: fig. 24, as
Psoralis alis
Bell, 1959
, a junior subjective synonym of
Chitta chittara
), quite distinctive and diagnostic: uncus and tegumen very short, look compressed, penis with a long titillator diverging from penis, valva peculiar, crooked with three teeth on harpe, directed dorsad, caudad and ventrad (
Bell 1959
). In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly
1107.9.6
:A335C, aly13410.7.2:T37C, aly
1838.8.3
:G730G (not C), aly127.64.1:G1182G (not A), aly4966.20.2:A1499A (not G).
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.
Subtribe Moncina A.
Warren, 2008
.