Pares Grishin, 2019

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731 (731), pp. 1-56 : 31-32

Pares Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Phlebodes pares Bell, 1959 .

Definition. A genus near Joanna Evans, 1955 (type species Joanna joanna Evans, 1955 ) and Vinpeius Austin, 1997 (type and the only species Pompeius tinga Evans, 1955 ), and in same clade with Niconiades Hübner, [1821] (type species Niconiades xanthaphes Hübner, [1821] ), where it was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Indeed resembles some Niconiades species due to the presence of large hyaline spots on hindwing and green scaling of the body, but genitalia (illustrated by Bell 1959: fig. 22 and Nicolay 1980: fig. 8) quite distinctive and diagnostic: short uncus and tegumen, together not longer than valva height, uncus rounded and weakly bilobed caudad, saccus long, about half of vinculum length, penis narrowing caudad, valva broad, more than half of its length, ampulla transitions to harpe without a break, harpe projecting caudad as a broad straight tooth, indented before the tooth along ventral margin. ( Bell 1959; Nicolay 1980). In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly890.44.9:C94G, aly9673.13.1:C269G, aly3555.4.2:G923A, aly 1041.12.1:T93T (not C), aly537.7.1:T984T (not C), aly 1038.8.1:A1367A (not C), aly8857.2.1:G1234G (not A), aly1041.22.3:A377A (not G), aly517.17.2:G336G (not C).

Etymology. The name, a masculine noun in the nominative singular, echoes the type species name.

Species included. The type species and Thoon maritza Nicolay, 1980 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008.

Figures

Figure 11. Nuclear genome and Z chromosome trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.

Figure 12. Mitochondrial genome and COI barcode trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.