Bolla (Sebia), 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

Sebia Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Nisoniades eusebius Plötz, 1884 .

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 keys to E.31.10 or 11c (except 18a) in Evans (1953) and is distinguished from its relatives by the following characters: at least around tornus of ventral hindwing with gray or ocherous overscaling, distal third of ventral forewing not paler than the rest, forewing typically broader, more pointed at the apex, discal cell without white or hyaline spots, antenna nudum with about 13 segments; tegumen in dorsal view notched, but not lobed, in the middle on its sides, with projections at the base of uncus in some species, uncus bulbous at the base, narrowing to a sharp or more rounded point, valva approximately rectangular (at least more so than in relatives), ampulla small, indistinct, harpe usually long, could also be rectangular and not shorted than valva, bilobed, or short and upturned, in which case tegumen with short processes at the base of uncus. Confident identification is provided by DNA, and a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: in the nuclear genome: aly594.10.2:A96T, aly594.10.2:T117G, aly84.89.2:C467G, aly84.89.2:T480C, aly84.99.2:A925T, and in the COI barcode: A40T, C81(mostly T), 82R, T652C, or if 652T then T653C.

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the type species name: [eu] Sebi [us] + a.

Species included. Staphylus evippe Godman and Salvin, 1896 , Staphylus orsines Godman and Salvin, 1896 , Nisoniades eusebius Plötz, 1884 , Pholisora chilpancingo E. Bell, 1937 , restored status (see below), Bolla tetra guerra Evans, 1953 , Bolla tetra oriza Evans, 1953 , Staphylus brennus Godman and Salvin, 1896 , Bolla antha Evans, 1953 , Bolla dorsolaciniae Steinhauser, 1989 , Hesperia giselus Mabille, 1883 , and Pholisora giselus race boliviensis E. Bell, 1937 .

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.