Havea, 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 : 82-83

Havea Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Hesperia havei Boisduval, 1833 .

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 lineage with the species currently called Borbo havei (Boisduval, 1833) (type locality in Madagascar) corresponds to the last one (others discussed above). This new subgenus keys to 68.B.(b)(b 1)(c 2) in Evans (1937) and is distinguished from its relatives by narrower uncus terminally rounded in dorsal view with approximately parallel sides (not concave, and not gradually narrowing distad) and ampulla expanded distad and rounded, nearly reaching the distal end of harpe, which is with a sharp, tooth-like process directed anterodorsad at its base. A combination of the following nuclear genomic base pairs is diagnostic: aly 1952.2.12:C46T, aly 1952.2.12:T48A, aly310.6.1:G1542C, aly4196.3.1:T1023C, aly4196.3.1: G1039T, aly127.59.2:T289T (not C), aly6209.2.1:T1095T (not G), aly813.4.5:A855A (not C), aly275211.12.

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 Gegenes Hübner, 1819 .