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 : 70

Geia Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Pamphila geisa Möschler, 1879 .

Definition. Previously placed in Morys Godman, 1900 (type species Morys valda Evans, 1955 ), but not monophyletic with it, being sister to both Morys and Lerema Scudder, 1872 (type species Papilio accius J. E. Smith, 1797 ) ( Fig. 14 ), and therefore is a subgenus distinct from them (above, we placed Morys as a subgenus of Lerema ). Keys to J. 40.3 in Evans (195). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: forewing in males with a long single brand under vein CuA 2 and a brand above vein CuA 2 between the origins of veins CuA 1 and CuA 2; arms of both gnathos and uncus widely separated at their origins, thin, longer than a wide and short (about half of its width in length) tegumen; harpe long and narrow (at least thrice its height in length), hooklike. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly 1454.7.7:T433A, aly 1454.7.7:C434G, aly862.12.2:A1488G, aly997.9.7:G200C, and aly997.9.7:A199T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular formed from the type species name Gei [s] a.

Species included. The type species, Euroto lyde Godman, 1900 and Euroto etelka Schaus, 1902 .

Parent taxon. Lerema Scudder, 1872 .

Figures

Figure 14. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 2. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.