Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2023

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Genomics-based taxonomic rearrangement of Achlyodini and Carcharodini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae), Insecta Mundi 2023 (16), pp. 1-33 : 25-26

Stolla Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Pholisora balsa E. Bell, 1937 .

Definition. The nuclear genomic tree reveals that Bolla Mabille, 1903 (type species Bolla pullata Mabille, 1903 , treated as a junior subjective synonym of Staphylus imbras Godman and Salvin, 1896 ) splits into four clades at the subgenus level ( Fig. 5 ). The subgenera corresponding to three of these clades do not have available names and are new. One of these new subgenera includes many species previously placed in Staphylus Godman and Salvin, 1896 (type species Helias ascalaphus Staudinger, 1876 ). Species in this subgenus key to E.31.21, E.32.1b, 9, 27, 32, or 37 in Evans (1953) and are distinguished from its relatives by the following characters: ventral hindwing even around tornus frequently without gray or ocherous overscaling, distal third of ventral forewing not paler than the rest, forewing usually narrower, more rounded at the apex, discal cell with white or hyaline spot(s) in some species, antenna nudum with 10–11 segments in most species; tegumen in dorsal view not notched and not lobed in the middle on its sides, and could be with projections (sometimes long) at the base of uncus, uncus undivided, terminally narrowing, usually separated from tegumen by a notch (or a concavity) in lateral view, harpe may be elongated, extending posteriad, or broader and upturned, ampulla with a process, projection, or a hump. Confident identification is provided by DNA, and a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: in the nuclear genome: aly291.13.2:C57T, aly 1720.4.1:A1080G, aly 1720.4.1:A837G, aly 1720.4.1:A1147C, aly728.40.3:T120C, and in the COI barcode: C81C, 82Y, T284C, A286T, A298A, T652T, T653T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, meaning that the genus includes a large number of species that were transferred from Staphylus to Bolla : St [aphylus] + [B] olla.

Species included. Antigonus zorilla Plötz, 1886 , Pholisora madrea R. Williams and E. Bell, 1940 , restored status (see below), Pholisora hazelae Hayward, 1940 , restored status (see below), Staphylus evemerus Godman and Salvin, 1896 , Staphylus chlora Evans, 1953 , Pholisora astra R. Williams and E. Bell, 1940 , Pholisora balsa E. Bell, 1937 , Staphylus tridentis Steinhauser, 1989 , Staphylus esmeraldus L. Miller, 1966 , Hesperia chlorocephala Latreille, [1824] , and Staphylus incanus E. Bell, 1932 .

Parent taxon. Genus Bolla Mabille, 1903 .

Figures

Figure 5. The nuclear genome-based phylogeny of Carcharodini, middle segment (continues in 6, see Fig. 4 for the first segment) showing Pholisorina subtrib. n. Species formerly placed in Staphylus are labeled in red. Asterisk marks a species with a dedicated study (Lemes et al. 2023) that already assigned it to Bolla. See Fig. 1 for notations.