Tekliades Grishin, 2019

Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Expanded phenotypic diagnoses for 24 recently named new taxa of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 8 (1), pp. 1-16 : 8

Genus Tekliades Grishin, 2019

Type species: Thymele ramanatek Boisduval, 1833 .

ZooBank registration: 081564BA-DA0C-4C46-AEAB-6C00131AC8BD

Diagnosis: The genus was defined as a clade from about 15 Mya that contains the species Thymele ramanatek Boisduval, 1833 , and putatively synapomorphic DNA characters for this clade were given ( Li et al., 2019). Phenotypically, species in this genus would key to I. 1.9 in Evans (1937). The distinction of this genus from Coeliades Hübner, 1818 was not obvious before DNA studies due to similarity in appearance and genitalia. Distinguished from other genera of Coeliadinae by undivided uncus, bulkier gnathos and aedeagus, notch at the distal end of valva, white hindwing fringes, and a white postdiscal band on hindwing below ( Fig. 13 ).

Species included: Thymele ramanatek Boisduval, 1833 .

Parent Taxon: Subfamily Coeliadinae Evans, 1937 .

Figures

Fig. 13. Tekliades. Uniquely characteristic ventral wing pattern of Tekliades ramanatek.