Notilia, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Opler & Grishin, 2021

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2021, Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 9 (3), pp. 1-55 : 44-45

Notilia Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Eresia orthia Hewitson, 1864 .

Definition. Previously placed in Ortilia Higgins, 1981 ( type species Papilio liriope Cramer, 1775 ), this group is not monophyletic with it. Instead it is sister to all other Eresia sensu lato, and is close to them (Fig. 45). Previously discovered and defined as the Brazilian " Ortilia " clade by Wahlberg and Freitas (2007), this phylogenetic group was also confirmed and discussed in a more recent study suggesting "that this clade requires a new name" ( Long et al. 2014). Due to its genetic closeness to Eresia sensu lato, this distinctive lineage is named as a subgenus of Eresia rather than a separate genus pending further analysis. It keys out to Ortilia in Higgins (1981) sharing the following diagnostic combination of characters with it: antennal club pyriform, aedeagus end without a pair of twisted processes, tegumen reduced, scaphial extensions small, without hooks and spines at angles, saccus single, narrow, finger-like, not expanding terminally, without a cleft. Differs from Ortilia in shorter and straighter harpe projecting directly caudodorsad (not arched at its origin changing direction from cephalodorsad) and less extensive or absent fulvous markings on wings above.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed as a fusion Not + [Ort] ilia to indicate distinction from Ortilia .

Species included. The type species, Phyciodes orticas Schaus, 1902 , Phyciodes sejona Schaus, 1902 , Eresia velica Hewitson, 1864 , Eresia dicoma Hewitson, 1864 , and Phyciodes polinella Hall, 1928 .

Parent taxon. Genus Eresia Boisduval, 1836 .