Grishin, 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 : 77

Lippina Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Carystus telesinus Mabille, 1878 .

Definition. Genomic trees reveal that while Xanthoneura Eliot, 1978 (type species Hesperia corissa Hewitson, 1876 ) is monophyletic (and we keep it as a single genus), it deeply splits into two clades: the nominotypical and unnamed that represents a new subgenus. Members of this new subgenus key to J.10.23. in Evans (1949) and are distinguished from their relatives by the 3 rd segment of palpi stout and bent forward, ventral hindwing largely unmarked (or with a central spot), veins not yellower, forewing with a spot in cell M 2 -M 3 right above the spot in cell M 3 -CuA 1, these two spots together give an appearance of a single larger spot; uncus in dorsal view much narrower than long, narrowing in the middle, divided, arms small knob-like, not widely separated. A combination of the following nuclear genomic base pairs is diagnostic: aly577.16.2:T174C, aly577.16.2:T198A, aly577.16.2:A216G, aly 1591.7.3: A333C, aly1222.40.2:A15G.

Etymology. The species of this subgenus are from [Phi] lippin [es]+a. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular.

Species included. The type species (i.e., Carystus telesinus Mabille, 1878 ) and Xanthoneura obscurior de Jong & Treadaway, 2007 .

Parent taxon. Genus Xanthoneura Eliot, 1978 .