Duroca 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 : 14

Genus Duroca Grishin, 2019

Type species: Hesperia duroca Plötz, 1882 .

ZooBank registration: 476FE13C-5895-4139-BB11-44F835E21565

Diagnosis: The genus was defined as a clade from about 7 Mya that contains the species Hesperia duroca Plötz, 1882 , and putatively synapomorphic DNA characters for this clade were given ( Li et al., 2019). Phenotypically, species in this genus would key to J.39.5a in Evans (1955) and a combination of the following characters is diagnostic: antennae about half of costa length, nudum 2/9 to 4/9, palpi narrow, 3rd segment short, conically shaped, mid tibiae with spines, males with broad tripartite stigma from base of vein CuA1 to vein 1A+2A, origin on vein CuA2 on forewing is closer to the base than to vein CuA1. Stigma longer than in Lerema Scudder, 1872 and reaches vein 1A+2A closer to the base of wing ( Fig. 24 ). Uncus and gnathos deeply divided, and this genus best distinguished from other genera by broad valva with large harpe, upturned and shaped like a hook, being more similar to some Phlebodes Hübner, [1819] and Saturnus Evans, 1955 than to Lerema , but uncus and gnathos divided less deeply in these genera with hook-shaped harpe.

Species included: Hesperia duroca Plötz, 1882 .

Parent Taxon: Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

Fig. 24. Duroca. D. duroca duroca ♂, Brazil: RJ, dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views.