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
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Nervia
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
22F7A77E-E3FF-448C-853D-165AB8D0582A
Type
species.
Hesperia nerva
Fabricius, 1793
.
Definition.
A sister genus to
Tsitana
Evans, 1937
(
type
species
Cyclopides tsita
Trimen, 1870
) and not monophyletic with
Kedestes
Watson, 1893
(
type
species
Hesperia lepenula
Wallengren, 1857
), where it was previously placed (
Fig. 9
).
Kedestes nerva
group (
Hancock and Gardiner 1982
), keys to V.27.A. in
Evans (1937)
. Distinguished from
Kedestes
by mostly dark below antennae (not pale or checkered), orange submarginal markings on forewing above (at least in females), rusty ventral hindwing margin, narrow uncus, upturned almost rectangular harpe with serrated dorsal edge, not separated from ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly6841.65.2:C1166G, aly2578.13.2:C1091A, aly127.64.1:A1342T, aly83.5.1:A418C, aly904.15.14:C3808G.
Etymology.
The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the
type
species name.
Species included.
The
type
species,
Hesperia mohozutza
Wallengren, 1857
,
Kedestes protensa
Butler, 1901
,
Pyrgus chaca
Trimen, 1873
,
Kedestes heathi
Hancock and Gardiner, 1982
,
Kedestes ekouyi
Vande
weghe and Albert, 2009,
Kedestes michaeli
Gardiner and
Hancock, 1982
,
Kedestes monostichus
Hancock and Gardiner, 1982
,
Kedestes nancy
Collins and Larsen, 1991
, and
Kedestes pinheyi
Hancock and Gardiner, 1982
.
Parent taxon.
Tribe Astictopterini Swinhoe, 1912.