Rigga 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 : 29-30

Rigga Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Vorates auristriga Draudt, 1923 .

Definition. A likely sister to Misius Evans, 1955 (type and the only species Pamphila misius Mabille, 1891 ), this genus is removed from Parphorus Godman, 1900 (type species Phlebodes storax Mabille, 1891 ), where it was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J.34.9 or J.34.10a in Evans (1955). Diagnosed by long and prominent triangular hyaline yellow spot filling out forewing cell R 5 -M 1 from the base to about a third of its length (except paramus E. Bell, 1947 , which has typical for the genus genitalia), and no other apical forewing hyaline spots, hindwing below with more or less prominent pale ray along vein M 1 from wing base to outer margin. Genitalia differ from relatives by a combination of the following characters: uncus twice as long as tegumen, arms parallel and narrow, gnathos vestigial, valva twice as long as wide, harpe not extending much beyond bulky rounded ampulla, upturned and not separated from ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly536.116.6:A107G, aly 2124.4.17:G268T, aly6377.1.2:A4462G, aly208.50.8:T236A, aly536.108.1:C2126T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, containing the last four letters of the type species name with an extra ‘g’ added to avoid a homonym.

Species included. The type species, Hesperia hesia Hewitson, 1870 , Apaustus ira Butler, 1870 , Euroto oeagrus Godman, [1900] , Vorates paramus Bell, 1947 , and Vorates sapala Godman, [1900] .

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.