Zarida, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2023

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (3), pp. 1-94 : 79-80

Zarida Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Hesperia lacida Hewitson, 1876 .

Definition. Within a smaller genus Gretna Evans, 1937 (type species Hesperia cylinda Hewitson, 1876 ) due to removal of Balenga balenge Holland, 1891, comb. nov. (type locality in Gabon), we note the genetic differentiation of a clade sister to that with the type species ( Fig. 49). This clade diverges from other Gretna at least at the tree level corresponding to subgenera (if not genera), i.e., approximately the same as Isma Distant, 1886 (type species Isma obscura Distant, 1886 ) from Idmon Nicéville, 1895 (type species Baoris unicolor Distant, 1886 , a junior homonym, available name for this species is Iambrix distanti Shepard, 1937 ) ( Fig. 49), and we regard it as representing a subgenus. This new subgenus keys to 53.A.(a)(b 1) in Evans (1937) and is distinguished from its relatives by an undivided and much narrower uncus, almost spike-shaped in dorsal view; better developed (and hyaline) spot in the middle of dorsal hindwing, prominent spot in forewing cell CuA 2 -1A+2A, and clearly defined whitish bands or area on ventral hindwing. A combination of the following COI barcode base pairs is diagnostic: T56 C, T154 C, T379 A, T553 A, T556 A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular and is a fusion of species names in this subgenus: Zar [emba]+[lac] ida.

1884.

Parent taxon. Genus Gretna Evans, 1937 .