Grishin, 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 : 45

Levinata Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Eresia levina Hewitson, 1872 .

Definition. Previously placed in Eresia Boisduval, 1836 (type species Nereis eunice Hübner, [1807] ), this group is not monophyletic with it. Instead it is sister to all other Eresia sensu lato but Notilia subgen. n. (Fig. 45). It is a phenotypically distinctive subgenus diagnosed by wings rounder than Eresia with broad discal band across forewing, blue in the type species. Its male genitalia are distinctive, with diagnostic characters for this new subgenus as described for Eresia levina on page 150 and illustrated in Figs. 430– 431 in Higgins (1981): i.e., genital capsule larger than in other Eresia , tegumen sclerotized, shoulders well-developed, scaphial extension expanded, sclerotized and terminally with many small teeth, valvae with fine teeth on inner sides near apex, aedeagus terminally rounded, without ostium keel.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the type species name.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Genus Eresia Boisduval, 1836 .