Tulsia, 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 : 80

Tulsia Grishin, new genus

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Type species. Parnara tulsi Nicéville, 1884 .

Definition. Genomic trees reveal that the lineage of Caltoris tulsi (Nicéville, 1884) (type locality in India) originates in rapid radiation and is not strongly grouped with any other single genus. Complemented with its strong genetic differentiation from others ( Fig. 50), it represents a genus-level taxon. This new genus keys to M.7.12. in Evans (1949) and is distinguished from its relatives by forewing without tuft of scales beneath and spots in discal cell, ventral hindwing in its basal half and ventral forewing along costal margin overscaled with pale purplish (not ocherous) scales; uncus rounded at its distal end, only slightly knobbed on the sides, ampulla expanded and pointed dorsad (not rounded at its apex). A combination of the following nuclear genomic base pairs is diagnostic: aly 2643.5.1: T192 C, aly 2613.4.2:G2377C, aly1877. 13.1:A892 T , aly1877.13.1: T938 C, aly1877.13.1:A1195T.

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. Tribe Baorini Doherty, 1886 .