Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 29

Turis Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Pyrgus (Scelothrix) veturius Plötz, 1884 .

Definition. Chirgus Grishin, 2019 splits into two prominent clades suggesting to divide it into two subgenera ( Fig. 6 ). One clade includes Hesperia ( Syrichthus [sic]) limbata Erschoff, 1876 and thus is the nominotypical subgenus, and the other is a new subgenus that keys to G. 1.9 in Evans (1953). Distinguished from the nominotypical subgenus by the following combination of characters: forewing above with white or hyaline spots in base of cell CuA 1 -CuA 2 and in cell R 2 -R 3 half way between the discal cell spot and subapical spots, below without pale streaks between the discal cell spot and postdiscal spots in cells M 1 -M 2 and M 2 -M 3; males without costal fold, with tibial tuft; uncus undivided; valva simple, three times longer than wide, without inner processes; harpe weakly separated from ampulla, rounded; aedeagus terminally expanded. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly3561.6.1:A201C, aly3653.7.2:A220C, aly6841.32.4:A1374G, aly116.29.5:A129G, and aly208.28.1:A135G.

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular formed from the type species name: [ve] Turi [u] s.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Genus Chirgus Grishin, 2019 .

Figures

Figure 6. Genomic trees of Pyrgini and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.