Lucispila, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2025

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2025, Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (5), pp. 1-201 : 26-27

Lucispila Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Hesperia lucianus Fabricius, 1793 .

Definition. Genomic analysis reveals that Parvospila J. Hall, 2018 (type species Papilio emylius Cramer, 1775 ) partitions into two prominent clades genetically differentiated at least at the subgenus level ( Fig. 23); e.g., their COI barcodes may differ by as much as 12.1% (80 bp). One of the clades includes the type species of Parvospila , and the other corresponds to a new genus group taxon that is conservatively proposed at the subspecies level. This new subgenus encompasses the lucianus group of Hall (2018), and the phenotypic characters and the description referring to this species group given by Hall apply to this subgenus. In brief, this new subgenus differs from its relatives by a combination of the following characters: absent submarginal white spots on the dorsal side of the wings, even near the apex; a more projecting distad ventral corner of the uncus in lateral view, a longer (but still short) saccus; narrower and upturned at the narrowing tip valvae; and a longer aedeagus with a cluster of much longer and prominent spines in vesica. In DNA, a combination of the following characters is diagnostic in the nuclear genome: cne2651.14.17:A660G, cne2651.14.17:C677A, cne96.1.3:G91C, cne96.1.3:T108C, cne4571.6.1:A472C; and in COI barcode: T169A, A469T, T482G, C538A, A643T.

Etymology. The name is a fusion of the type species and genus names: luci [anus] + [Parvo] spila. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular.

Species included. The type species (i.e., Hesperia lucianus Fabricius, 1793 ) and Echenais lucetia Hübner, 1821 .

Parent taxon. Genus Parvospila J. Hall, 2018 .