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 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 .