Ochlata Grishin

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 : 167

Ochlata Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Hesperia venata Bremer & Grey, 1853 .

Definition. In the genomic phylogeny of Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 , the last prominent clade consists of all Old World species 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 at least slightly offset from each other; ventral hindwing and the apex of ventral forewing are yellow to brown, sometimes with olive overscaling but not bright-green; valva may have a prominent cleft between harpe and ampulla in some species, while in others harpe touches the ampulla, the aedeagus is narrower, with a long style and several cornuti. In DNA, a combination of the following characters is diagnostic in the nuclear genome: aly2682. 1.6:G81A, aly2178.36.1:C129T, aly 2250.11.1:A174G, aly256.7.8: T177 A, aly159.16.1:G96A; and in COI barcode: A85T, 232T or C (not A), T325 A, T514 T, T520 T.

Etymology. The name is a fusion of the names of the genus and the type species of the subgenus: Ochl [odes] + [ven] ata. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular.

Species included. All Old World species of Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 : the type species (i.e., Hesperia venata Bremer & Grey, 1853 ), Pamphila bouddha Mabille, 1876 , Pamphila brahma Moore, 1878 , Augiades crataeis Leech, 1893 , Ochlodes flavomaculata Evans, 1949 , Augiades formosana Bremer & Grey, 1853 , Ochlodes hasegawai Chiba & Tsukiyama, 1996 , Ochlodes klapperichii Evans, 1940 , Ochlodes lanta Evans, 1939 , Ochlodes linga Evans, 1939 , Pamphila ochracea Bremer, 1861 , Ochlodes sagitta Hemming, 1934 , Augiades similis Leech, 1893 , Pamphila siva Moore, 1878 , Hesperia subhyalina Bremer & Grey, 1853 , Papilio sylvanus Esper, 1777 , Pamphila thibetana Oberthür, 1886 , including taxa currently treated as their subspecies and synonyms.

Parent taxon. Genus Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 .

Figures

Fig. 131. Phylogenetic trees of Ochlodes inferred from protein-coding regions in: a) the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 13,712,217 positions, and b) the mitochondrial genome. Different subgenera are shown in different colors: Ochloba subgen. n. (red). Ochlata subgen. n. (purple), Ochluma subgen. n. (blue), and Ochlodes (green) and labeled above corresponding branches in the nuclear genome tree. Type species of subgenera are labeled in magenta.