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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731
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3677235
1ee19d5d-27cf-4c93-989c-3fe3eb467203
1942-1354
3677235
BA35690A-FC73-4E5A-A805-FE9550275FEC
Flattoides
Grishin
,
new genus
http://zoobank.org/
9D7A5387-08F8-4C25-B584-B67F90EEC43A
Type
species.
Codatractus amazonensis
Bell, 1947
.
Definition.
A sister genus to
Oileides
Hübner, [1825]
(
type
species
Oileides vulpinus
Hübner, [1825]
), where
C. amazonensis
was placed previously (
Fig. 2
). However large genetic distance between
O. vulpinus
and
O. amazonensis
(COI barcodes differ by 12.3%, the difference is typically smaller than 10% for species within a genus) argues for their distinction. Keys to D.
9.4 in
Evans (1952)
. Genitalia illustrated by Bell in his fig. 2 (
Bell 1947
). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: shorter than tegumen and broad uncus with small (not longer than wide) arms; prominent gnathos not shorter than uncus; valva gradually curved dorsad, ending with two pointed teeth; tuft of apricot-colored modified scales in a groove along the vein near the base of ventral hindwing in males; forewing with a macular white band from mid-costa to tornus. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly8661.4.1:A916G, aly10226.44.1:C1975G, aly709.1.2:
T194
C, aly36556.1.1:
T2416
T (not A), aly274.33.1:A188A (not G), aly82.28.5:
T398
T (not G).
Etymology.
The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, for the
type
species that resembles butterflies from the genus
Celaenorrhinus
known as “Flats” in some English-speaking countries.
Species included.
Only the
type
species.
Parent taxon.
Subtribe Oileidina Grishin, 2019.