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 : 33-35

Magda Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Erebia magdalena Strecker, 1880 .

broad with many small teeth in distal half ( E. discoidalis ), or long, more than 4 times longer than wide and with a broad-W-shaped dorsal margin ( E. rossii (J. Curtis, 1835)) . The following combination of characters in the COI barcode region is diagnostic: 271C (not T), 274C (not T), 421T or C (not A), 424T (not A), 451T or C (not A), 484not T, and 622T (not A).

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

Species included. The type species, Hipparchia cyclopius Eversmann, 1844 , Papilio disa Thunberg, 1791 , Hipparchia discoidalis Kirby, 1837 , Erebia edda Ménétriés, 1851 , Papilio embla Thunberg, 1791 , Erebia erinnyn Warren, 1932 , Erebia fasciata Butler, 1868 , Erebia mackinleyensis Gunder, 1932 , Erebia mancinus Doubleday, 1849 , Hipparchia rossii Curtis, 1835 , Erebia magdalena sachaensis Dubatolov, 1992 , Erebia tristis tristior Goltz, 1937 , and Erebia wanga Bremer, 1864 .

Parent taxon. Genus Erebia Dalman, 1816 .

Additional genomic support for the broadly defined genera Cercyonis Scudder, 1875 , Maniola Schrank, 1801 and Erebia Dalman, 1816

related phylogenetic lineages diversified around the same time, and if we chose the names of genera to reflect the pivotal common point in their evolution, the three-genus classification fits it best. As an alternative, we would be left with many small lineages as genera, and for internal consistency (i.e. taxonomic category represents a level in the classification), would need to split Erebia into at least 3 distinct genera, and Maniola into at least 5 (Fig. 36). We prefer to treat these smaller lineages as subgenera, as they do not represent the most prominent level of diversification, but the next one to it.