Maculasia, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Opler & 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 : 16-17

Maculasia Grishin, new genus

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Type species. Euselasia albomaculiga Callaghan, 1999 .

Definition. The genus is sister to Euselasia Hübner, [1819] ( Euselasia gelaena Hübner, [1819] , which is Papilio gelon Stoll, 1787 ) and is prominently distinct from it genetically (Fig. 15 orange). Therefore, it constitutes a new genus. Distinguished from its relatives by the characters given on pages 1047–1048 and illustrated in Figs. 3–6, 46–47 for Euselasia albomaculiga by Callaghan (1999). In brief, its wings are rounded, without blue scaling, its forewings are with a large pale spot, and its ventral hindwing submarginal black spots are surrounded by grayish-white (not at the end of orange rays, except the central large one that is framed by yellow basad), and have yellow streaks along the veins not between them; valvae narrowing to a point, not bilobed, as long as tegumen with uncus, slightly wider than aedeagus, vinculum angled in lateral view, with spurs in the middle directed caudad. Additionally, the following combination of nuclear genomic characters is diagnostic: cne 2298.2.2:A2104A (not C), cne5129.1.5: A833A (not G), cne2685.14.3:A934A (not T), cne 1095.7.22:G1463G (not A), cne4870.1.18:T552T (not A), cne 2885.9.10:A4270C, cne1547.14.4:A2756G, cne 1696.1.1:A2529T, cne7231.10.9:T567C, and cne 1036.6.11:G3200C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular formed as a fusion of the type species name and its former genus name: [albo] Macu [liga] + [Euse] lasia to keep the word at 9 letters, which is the number of letters in Euselasia and the number of genera Euselasia is being split into.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subfamily Euselasiinae Kirby, 1871 .