Ochloba, 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 : 166

Ochloba Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Poanes batesi Bell, 1935 .

Definition. In the genomic phylogeny of Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 , the first prominent clade, which is sister to the rest, currently includes a single species, the only member of the genus from the Caribbean Islands, and represents a new subgenus ( Fig. 131). This new subgenus differs from its relatives by a combination of the following characters: the two parts of the stigma are aligned perfectly with each other (the end of one is not offset compared to the beginning of the other), ventral hindwing and the apex of ventral forewing are green-colored, valva with a larger cleft between harpe and ampulla, the aedeagus is broad, without a long style but with a long pack of cornuti. In DNA, a combination of the following characters is diagnostic in the nuclear genome: aly536.34.1:T45A, aly216.67.2:A123G, aly72.25.3:G69A, aly1113.24.1:G617A, aly727.16.4:T106C; and in COI barcode: T46A, A76G, A280G, T379C, T424A.

Etymology. The name is a fusion of the names of the genus and the type species of the subgenus (first syllable): Ochlo [des] + ba [tesi]. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular.

Species included. Only the type species (i.e., Poanes batesi Bell, 1935 ).

Parent taxon. Genus Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 .