Caudatractus 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

Subgenus Caudatractus Grishin, 2019

Type species: Eudamus alcaeus Hewitson, 1867 .

ZooBank registration: DF0F3C91-F56E-4B65-B86C-385A36F9D7FD

Diagnosis: The subgenus was defined as a clade from about 7 Mya that contains the species Eudamus alcaeus 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.11.1b in Evans (1952). These species share the following characters of Codatractus : broadly arcuate antennae, forewing with conjoined apical spots just beyond of discal cell in cells R2-R3 and R3-R4, spot in forewing cell M3-CuA1 midway between the discal band and outer margin, ventral hindwing with 3 dark irregular bands. Species in this subgenus are distinguished from all other Codatractus species by the tail near hindwing tornus ( Fig. 19 ). Species from the nominotypical subgenus lack tails, but their hindwing may be lobed at tornus.

Species included: Codatractus carlos Evans, 1952 , Codatractus rowena Evans, 1952 , Eudamus alcaeus Hewitson, 1867 , Codatractus apulia Evans, 1952 , Codatractus yucatanus H. Freeman, 1977 , and Eudamus aminias Hewitson, 1867 .

Parent Taxon: Genus Codatractus Lindsey, 1921 .

Figures

Fig. 19. Caudatractus. Left: Codatractus (Caudatractus) aminias, Brazil: MG, with tailed hindwing vs. right: Codatractus (Codatractus) imalena (A. Butler, 1872), Brazil, AM.