Viridina 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 : 35

Viridina Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Lerema (?) viridis Bell, 1942 .

Definition. A close sister genus to Moeris Godman, [1900] (type species Talides striga Geyer, [1832] ). Not in the same clade as Lerema Scudder, 1872 (type species Papilio accius Smith, 1797 ), Tigasis Godman, [1900] (type species Tigasis zalates Godman, [1900] ) or its subjective synonym Alerema Hayward, 1942 (type species Alerema aeteria Hayward, 1942 treated as junior subjective synonym of Phlebodes simplex Bell, 1930 ), where species from this genus were placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J.44.10 or J.41.6. in Evans (1955). Genitalia illustrated by Bell in his fig. 9 ( Bell 1942). Distinguished from its relatives by a combination of the following characters: uncus undivided, narrowing to a point; in ventral view: uncus sides slightly concave, gnathos arms widely apart, crescent-shaped, the same length as uncus, forming an φ together with it; saccus short, about the length of uncus, penis stout; harpe shorter than 1/3 of valva, slightly upturned, finely serrated at the distal margin, with a small tooth near ampulla, separated from it by a small notch; antennae longer than half of costa, checkered; wings produced; narrow complete stigma on forewing from base of vein CuA 1 to vein 1A+2A in males; hindwing below greenishochreous with a postdiscal irregular row of indistinct pale blotch-like spots. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1019.13.1:C3748G, aly208.17.4:G1754C, aly1475.19.1:A667G, aly 1041.11.5:G116G (not A), aly1294.15.2:A1078A (not T), aly272.12.6:A338A (not G).

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, and denotes that all three species placed in this genus have “virid” in their names.

Species included. The type species, Pamphila viridenex Weeks, 1901 , which is a very close relative, and Oeonus subviridis Hayward, 1940 .

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.