Afroidium, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2024
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Felipe |
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Afroidium |
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subgen. nov. |
Afroidium Grishin , new subgenus
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Type species. Lycaena metophis Wallengren, 1860 View in CoL .
Definition. As genomic analysis demonstrates, all species of Oraidium Bethune-Baker, 1914 View in CoL ( type species Lycaena barberae Trimen, 1868 View in CoL ) and Brephidium Scudder, 1876 View in CoL ( type species Lycaena exilis Boisduval, 1852 View in CoL ) ( Fig. 19) partition into three groups approximately equidistant from each other ( Fig. 19). Above, we proposed to treat Oraidium View in CoL as a subgenus of Brephidium View in CoL , which may render Brephidium View in CoL paraphyletic ( Fig. 19). To avoid possible non-monophyletic taxa, the third groups should also be given a rank of subgenus. This new subgenus differs from Oraidium View in CoL by its aedeagus, which is not saddle-shaped in its internal part but is bulbous, and the external part is similar to a small beak (shorter than the internal part) and not divided into two long (about twice the length of the internal part in O. barberae View in CoL ) and slender processes; and from both Oraidium View in CoL and Brephidium View in CoL by the tegumen lobe, which is with the terminal process not as long and rod-like as in Oraidium View in CoL , and is broader and bulkier than in Brephidium View in CoL , terminally with five shorter bristles (not two longer ones), and the base dorsally with a hump (not a lobe as in Oraidium View in CoL and not a hook-like process with sharp small teeth as in Brephidium View in CoL ). For further details about the morphology of these species and illustrations of their genitalia see Bethune-Baker (1914) and Stempffer (1967). In DNA, a combination of the following characters is diagnostic in the nuclear genome: cce22066.7.13:A106C, cce462.35.4:G159A, cce10386.1.3:C46T, cce 1353.3.2:A63T, cce 2452.1.6:C78T and in COI barcode: A88T, T127C, T163A, A202G, T616C.
Etymology. The name reflects the Afrotropical distribution of this subgenus and is formed similarly to Brephidium and Oraidium : Afro [tropical Breph] idium. The name is a neuter noun in the nominative singular.
Species included. Only the type species (i.e., Lycaena metophis Wallengren, 1860 ).
Parent taxon. Genus Brephidium Scudder, 1876 .
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