Flanga, 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 : 82

Flanga Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Parnara perobscura H. H. Druce, 1912 .

Definition. As discussed above and shown in the trees ( Fig. 50), the newly expanded genus Gegenes Hübner, 1819 (type species Papilio pumilio Hoffmansegg, 1804 ) can be partitioned into five subgenera. The species previously called Torbenlarsenia perobscura (H. H. Druce, 1912) (type locality in Ghana) is not monophyletic with Hesperia holtzi Plötz, 1882 (type locality in Angola), which is the type species of Torbenlarsenia Kemal & Koçak, 2020 , and belongs to a distinct clade that we define as one of the five subgenera. It does not have a name. This new subgenus keys to 68.B.(b)(a 1)(a 2)(a 3) in Evans (1937) and is distinguished from its relatives by long, finger-like flanges at the base of uncus and thinner, more terminally rounded tooth of harpe projecting anteriad. A combination of the following nuclear genomic base pairs is diagnostic: aly151.39.1:A351T, aly1139.20.2:A245C, aly 1412.8.1:G430C, aly 1412.8.1:C431A, aly 1349.7.9:G58T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular and refers to long flanges from the base of uncus that identify this subgenus.

Species included. The type species (i.e., Parnara perobscura H. H. Druce, 1912 ) and Pamphila detecta Trimen, 1893 .

Parent taxon. Genus Gegenes Hübner, 1819 .