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 : 51

Gracilata Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Enosis quadrinotata Mabille, 1889 .

Definition. Previously placed in Styriodes Schaus, 1913 (type species Styriodes lyco Schaus, 1913 ) but is not monophyletic with it, instead being sister to Psoralis Mabille, 1904 (type species Psoralis sabaeus Mabille, 1904 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Pamphila idee Weeks, 1901 ) ( Fig. 13 ). Keys to K. 2.1 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: antennae long, in males longer than 2/3 of the costal margin of forewing; brands short and stout: triangular at the base of cell CuA 1 -CuA 2 and a dash below vein CuA 2; forewing longer and narrower than in relatives with produced apex, hindwing disproportionally smaller than forewing compared to relatives, more angular and in males convex in cell CuA 2 -1A+2A; tegumen with a dorsal appendage, uncus undivided; aedeagus simple, without processes; harpe short, upturned, with a finger-like process directed dorsal by ampulla, ampulla expanded into a lobe. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly736.5.2:A444G, aly318.42.2:A1054C, aly3071.1.1:A328G, aly 1350.9.1:G193C, and aly481.12.1:T87C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the slender built of these skippers, very long antennae and legs, and narrower wings than in their relatives: Gracil [e] + [quadrinot] ata.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

Figure 13. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 1, and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.