Butleriini 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 : 7-8

Tribe Butleriini Grishin, 2019

Type genus: Butleria Kirby, 1871 .

ZooBank registration: D621EF81-FA65-4858-9450-E0C041598D7A

Diagnosis: The tribe was defined as a clade from about 40-45 Mya that contains the genus Butleria , and putatively synapomorphic DNA characters for this clade were given ( Li et al., 2019). Phenotypically, species in this tribe would key to H.4 and H. 5 in Evans (1955). Belongs to the subfamily Heteropterinae and differs from the nominotypical tribe by the blunt somewhat flattened apiculus, compressed at the blunt tip, antennae not shorter than 1/2 costa, and hind tibiae with upper spurs (sometimes short) ( Fig. 11 ).

Genera included: Butleria Kirby, 1871 and Argopteron E. Watson, 1893 .

Parent Taxon: Subfamily Heteropterinae Aurivillius, 1925 .

Figures

Fig. 11. Butleriini. Apiculus of antenna (top left), hind leg (bottom left), and characteristic wing shape (right) of Argopteron aureipennis