Asina 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 : 11-12

Subgenus Asina Grishin, 2019

Type species: Eudamus asine Hewitson, 1867 .

ZooBank registration: B3B7A6F6-A95C-4A2E-B9FB-80A7A8F86761

Diagnosis: The subgenus was defined as a clade from about 14 Mya that contains the species Eudamus asine Hewitson, 1867 , and putatively synapomorphic DNA characters for this clade were given ( Li et al., 2019). Phenotypically, species in this subgenus would key to C.7.2a in Evans (1952). The following characters distinguish them from other Hesperiidae except some Ectomis : antennal club angled, hindwing elongated with a long tail by the tornus, apical spots on forewing in a straight line, spot in forewing cell M3-CuA1 near discal band and farther from outer margin, males with costal fold. The following characters differentiate species in this subgenus from the nominal Ectomis : head a thorax above brown (without extensive green scales), forewing above with a dark spot about 1/3 from the base of cell CuA2-1A+2A, no spot in this cell past the discal band, but 2 small spots (one frequently hyaline) under the pale spot from the discal band in cell CuA1-CuA2 ( Fig. 20 ), ventrally, aedeagus with a terminal spine projected to the left.

Species included: Polythrix gyges Evans, 1952 , Goniuris [sic] hirtius A. Butler, 1870 , Polythrix roma Evans, 1952 , Eudamus asine Hewitson, 1867 , and Polythrix mexicanus H. Freeman, 1969 .

Parent Taxon: Genus Ectomis Mabille, 1878 .

Figures

Fig. 20. Asina. Diagnostic pattern of spots near forewing margin above in Ectomis (Asina) gyges ♂, Peru.