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 : 64-65

Rectava Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Megistias ignarus Bell, 1932 .

Definition. A clade without obvious close relatives near Cobalopsis Godman, 1900 (type species Pamphila edda Mabille, 1891 , a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia autumna Plötz, 1882 ) and Lurida Grishin, 2019 (type species Cobalus lurida Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 ) ( Fig. 14 ), therefore a genus. Not closely related to Papias Godman, 1900 (type species Pamphila integra Mabille, 1891 ). Keys to J.36.2, or J.37.5, or J. 24.8 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: brick-shaped, more or less rectangular valva, harpe with a small tooth at dorsal margin, uncus narrowing towards the distal end, with narrow arms (longer than wide) close together, gnathos about the same length as uncus, its arms are close to uncus arms in lateral view, saccus long and thin, longer than valva, aedeagus about 1.5 times longer than saccus; no brands or stigma. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly2178.27.2:A308G, aly207479.1.2:T48C, and aly 1294.9.12:T79A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the shape of valva: Recta [ngular]+ va [lva].

Species included. The type species, Megistias vorgia Schaus, 1902 , Vidius nostra Evans, 1955 , and Papias sobrinus Schaus, 1902 (see below).

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

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