Endosemia, Grishin, 2021

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2021, Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 9 (3), pp. 1-55 : 19

Endosemia Grishin, new genus

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Type species. Papilio ulrica Cramer, 1777 .

Definition. Species in this clade are currently in Mesosemia Hübner, [1819] (type species Mesosemia phicoclessa Hübner, [1819] , which is Papilio philocles Linnaeus, 1758 ), but are quite distant from it falling much outside of the Mesosemia radiation and originating during the earlier round of radiation (Fig. 16). Therefore this clade is a taxon of the same rank, a genus. This new genus differs from both Mesosemia and Ectosemia gen. n. by the following combination of characters: hindwing not lobed in the middle, forewing eyespot not elongated along discal cell, discal band (if developed) narrow, bands do not encircle forewing eyespot, or bands diffuse and poorly formed. Furthermore, the following combination of nuclear genomic characters is diagnostic: cne703.2.8:T903C, cne 1411.6.4:T1025A, cne2651.14.5: A4602G, cne12205.6.2: G835A, and cne8028.2.1:T1787A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular formed by replacing prefix "Meso-" with "Endo-" in the name of the former genus for these species.

Species included. The type species and Mesosemia macella Hewitson, 1859 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Mesosemiina Bates, 1859 .