Kolba, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2024

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2024, New taxa of butterflies supported by genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (3), pp. 1-63 : 47-48

Kolba Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Telicota kolbei Ribbe, 1899 .

Definition. Genomic analysis shows that the lineage with Sabera kolbei ( Ribbe, 1899) , comb. nov. (type locality in New Britain), is genetically differentiated from the type species of Sabera Swinhoe, 1908 , S. caesina Hewitson, 1866 ) (type locality in Aru) at the subgenus level ( Fig. 44), e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 8.1% (53 bp). Therefore, this lineage represents a new subgenus. This new subgenus keys to L. 14.2 in Evans (1949) and differs from its relatives by a combination of the following characters: undivided, terminally pointed uncus, enlarged in the middle and narrowing near tegumen in dorsal view, concave towards the distal end and swollen in the middle in lateral view; tapering to a point harpe with somewhat wavy dorsal margin; long antennae, longer than ½ of the costal margin; shorter and stouter 3 rd segment of palpi; rather produced forewings; apical spots on dorsal forewing but not beyond (towards costa) vein R 3; no strong sexual dimorphism in wing pattern ( Fig. 47). In DNA, a combination of the following characters is diagnostic in the nuclear genome: aly490.12.1:A1635G, aly490.12.1:T1662C, aly490.12.1:A4152G, aly430.8.1:T51A, aly430.8.1:C86G, and COI barcode: G29T, T127A, A130T, A286T, T553A.

Etymology. The name is inspired by the type species name. Moreover, in several Slavic languages, the word kolba means a flask with an expanded bottom, and Kolben in German may mean a bulb. The name refers to the bulbous enlargement of uncus in the middle (in dorsal view) that is characteristic of these species and is a feminine noun in the nominative singular.

Species included. The type species (i.e., Telicota kolbei Ribbe, 1899 ) and Telicota tenebricosa Mabille, 1904 , stat. rest.

Parent taxon. Genus Sabera Swinhoe, 1908 .