Pericharini 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

Tribe Pericharini Grishin, 2019

Type genus: Perichares Scudder, 1872 .

ZooBank registration: 94B68BD2-7F83-4E58-80E1-7F5AC8C56511

Distinguished from others within this group by forewing discal cell not shorter than inner margin, and vein CuA 1 opposite to vein R 1 (not R 2 or R 3) at their origins ( Fig. 12 ).

Diagnosis: The tribe was defined as a clade from about 32 Mya that contains the genus Perichares , and putatively synapomorphic DNA characters for this clade were given ( Li et al., 2019). Phenotypically, species in this tribe would key to K.27a in Evans (1955). Belongs to the "K. Carystus group" (not a monophyletic assemblage) of Evans, characterized by the broad "quadrantic" palpi, inner side of 2nd segment longer than the side contacting head in dorsal view and the 3rd segment short and stout, nipplelike, antennae not constricted before apiculus, nudum 10-16 segments, its portion on the club shorter than the long apiculus.

Genera included: Perichares Scudder, 1872 , Alera Mabille, 1891 , Orses Godman, 1901 , Lycas Godman, 1901 , Lychnuchoides Godman, 1901 , Pseudorphe A. Warren & Dolibaina, 2015, and Orphe Godman, 1901 .

Parent Taxon: Subfamily Hesperiinae Latreille, 1809 .

Figures

Fig. 12. Pericharini. Characteristic palpi, antennae, and long forewing cell in Perichares aurina Evans, 1955 ♂, Brazil: Parana.