Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 70

Geia Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Pamphila geisa Möschler, 1879 .

Definition. Previously placed in Morys Godman, 1900 ( type species Morys valda Evans, 1955 ), but not monophyletic with it, being sister to both Morys and Lerema Scudder, 1872 ( type species Papilio accius J. E. Smith, 1797 ) ( Fig. 14 ), and therefore is a subgenus distinct from them (above, we placed Morys as a subgenus of Lerema ). Keys to J. 40.3 in Evans (195). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: forewing in males with a long single brand under vein CuA 2 and a brand above vein CuA 2 between the origins of veins CuA 1 and CuA 2; arms of both gnathos and uncus widely separated at their origins, thin, longer than a wide and short (about half of its width in length) tegumen; harpe long and narrow (at least thrice its height in length), hooklike. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly 1454.7.7:T433A, aly 1454.7.7:C434G, aly862.12.2:A1488G, aly997.9.7:G200C, and aly997.9.7:A199T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular formed from the type species name Gei [s] a.

Species included. The type species, Euroto lyde Godman, 1900 and Euroto etelka Schaus, 1902 .

Parent taxon. Lerema Scudder, 1872 .

Figures

Figure 14. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 2. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.