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
Rigga
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
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Type
species.
Vorates auristriga
Draudt, 1923
.
Definition.
A likely sister to
Misius
Evans, 1955
(
type
and the only species
Pamphila misius
Mabille, 1891
), this genus is removed from
Parphorus
Godman, 1900
(
type
species
Phlebodes storax
Mabille, 1891
), where it was placed previously (
Fig. 11ā12
). Keys to J.34.9 or J.34.10a in
Evans (1955)
. Diagnosed by long and prominent triangular hyaline yellow spot filling out forewing cell R
5
-M
1
from the base to about a third of its length (except
paramus
E.
Bell, 1947
, which has typical for the genus genitalia), and no other apical forewing hyaline spots, hindwing below with more or less prominent pale ray along vein M
1
from wing base to outer margin. Genitalia differ from relatives by a combination of the following characters: uncus twice as long as tegumen, arms parallel and narrow, gnathos vestigial, valva twice as long as wide, harpe not extending much beyond bulky rounded ampulla, upturned and not separated from ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly536.116.6:A107G, aly
2124.4.17
:G268T, aly6377.1.2:A4462G, aly208.50.8:T236A, aly536.108.1:C2126T.
Figure 12.
Mitochondrial genome and COI barcode trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.
Etymology.
The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, containing the last four letters of the
type
species name with an extra āgā added to avoid a homonym.
Species included.
The
type
species,
Hesperia hesia
Hewitson, 1870
,
Apaustus ira
Butler, 1870
,
Euroto oeagrus
Godman, [1900]
,
Vorates paramus
Bell, 1947
, and
Vorates sapala
Godman, [1900]
.
Parent taxon.
Subtribe Moncina A.
Warren, 2008
.