Turmosa 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 : 25-26

Turmosa Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Hesperia camposa Plötz, 1886 .

Definition. A sister genus to Orthos Evans, 1955 (type species Eutychide orthos Godman, 1900 ) and in a different clade from Turmada Evans, 1955 (type species Dion turmada Druce, 1912 ), where it was placed previously ( Fig. 10 ). Keys to K. 16.2 in Evans (1955). Differs from other Hesperiidae by unspotted metallic blue-green wings above, hindwing below shiny orange-green with dark veins and narrow discal black band. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly276634.6.3:C296A, aly320.9.2:A59G, aly276634.6.3:C353T, aly5965.2.3:G988A, aly2582.35.2:A932T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, a fusion of two words in a former name: Turm [ada] and [camp] osa.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Carystina Mabille 1878 .

Figures

Figure 10. Genomic trees of Erionotini, Carystina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.