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 : 85

Picova Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Vorates steinbachi Bell, 1930 .

Definition. Currently in Saturnus Evans, 1955 ( type species Papilio saturnus Fabricius, 1787 ), Vorates steinbachi Bell, 1930 ( type locality Bolivia) and currently in Morys Godman, 1900 ( type species Apaustus valerius Möschler, 1879 ), Euroto incompta Hayward, 1942 ( type locality) are not monophyletic with the type species of the genera they are attributed to and instead are sister taxa in the genomic tree ( Fig. 15 ). Their clade is a weakly supported sister to Vistigma Hayward, 1939 ( type species Vistigma xanthobasis Hayward, 1939 ) with Haza Grishin, 2019 ( type species Hesperia hazarma Hewitson, 1877 ) and therefore is a genus. Keys to L.1.2 or J.20.2(a) (in part) in Evans (1955). This new genus is distinguished from its relatives by a beak-like directed dorsad projection on otherwise rounded, broad harpe, harpe not prominently separated from ampulla, saccus slightly shorter than vinculum, uncus narrowing in the middle with two knob-like divergent arms, penis shorter than valva; boomerang-shaped narrow brand at the base of cell CuA 1 -CuA 2. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly203.14.1:A408G, aly1146.42.8:A5096G, aly2250.14.1:A937C, aly151.17.2:C601A, and aly151.17.2:A3570C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the beak-shaped projection on valva: Pico + va [lva].

Species included. The type species and Euroto incompta Hayward, 1942 (see below).

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

Figure 15. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 3. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.