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 : 15

Liddia Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Helias pallida R. Felder, 1869 .

Definition. The genomic tree shows that the genus Eantis Boisduval, 1836 (type species Urbanus thraso Hübner, 1807 ) splits into five lineages at the subgenus level, and we regard these lineages as representing five subgenera ( Fig. 3 ). Out of these subgenera, in addition to the nominotypical, only one has a name: Tosta Evans, 1953 (type species Tosta tosta Evans, 1953 ), while three others are new. One of these new subgenera keys to F. 2.4 in Evans (1953) and is distinguished from its relatives by the following characters: forewing only slightly falcate, wings paler brown above; valvae asymmetric, left with a process from the ampulla, right without, harpe with convex dorsal margin without a process at its base by ampulla, aedeagus not strongly bent in the middle. In DNA, a combination of the following nuclear genomic base pairs is diagnostic: aly1249.23.2:T82G, aly322.13.2:A64C, aly 2612.12.4:A232C, aly 2612.12.4:G284C, aly619.2.4:A36T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the type species name: [pal] Lid {di} a.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Genus Eantis Boisduval, 1836 .

Figures

Figure 3. The nuclear genome-based phylogeny of Achlyodini (continued from Fig. 1). A segment corresponding to the subtribe Achlyodinia is shown. The top segment of the tree (subtribe Pythonidina) is replaced with four dots and is shown in Fig. 1. See Fig. 1 for notations. The names of taxa that before this work were placed in the genus Aethilla are shown in orange to illustrate the lack of monophyly.