Jerini 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 : 6

Tribe Jerini Grishin, 2019

Type genus: Jera Lindsey, 1925 .

ZooBank registration: AF3B5CEA-880A-4CB2-AF40-E6D87C39C040

Diagnosis: The tribe was defined as a clade from about 40-45 Mya that contains the genus Jera , and putatively synapomorphic DNA characters for this clade were given ( Li et al., 2019). Phenotypically, species in this tribe would key to E. 3 in Evans (1953) and can be distinguished from all other Hesperiidae by unique wing shape ( Fig. 8 ): forewing outer margin concave in the cell M 3 -CuA 1, hindwing produced with a short and stout bifurcated tail extending cell CuA 1 -CuA 2 and a lobe at tornus, antennal club blunt without apiculus, palpi long, forewing cell longer than 3/5 of costa.

Genera included: Jera Lindsey, 1925 .

Parent Taxon: Subfamily Pyrrhopyginae Mabille, 1877 .

Figures

Fig. 8. Jerini. Unique wing shape of Jera tricuspidata (Mabille, 1902) ♂, Ecuador.