Dotta Grishin, new genus

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Type species. Ceratrichia stellata Mabille, 1891 .

Definition. A genus without close relatives, but not monophyletic with Astictopterus C. and R. Felder, 1860 (type species Astictopterus jama C. and R. Felder, 1860), Kedestes Watson, 1893 (type species Hesperia lepenula Wallengren, 1857), or Isoteinon C. and R. Felder, 1862 (type species Isoteinon lamprospilus C. and R. Felder, 1862) (Fig. 9). Keys to V.27.12 or IV. 24.4 in Evans (1937). Distinguished from its relatives by long gnathos well-separated from and about the same length as uncus, terminally narrowing uncus, harpe terminally bulbous, finely serrated, separated from ampulla by a gap, black edged pale dots or spots on ventral hindwing, pale spots or dots above. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly274.20.6:A1605C, aly84.28.1:G1033C, aly274.20.6:T1601A, aly144.50.1:G193A, aly3194.1.2:C65A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the white dots on the wings.

Species included. The type species and Cyclopides callicles Hewitson, 1868 (formerly placed in Kedestes).

Parent taxon. Tribe Astictopterini Swinhoe, 1912.

Comments. Without DNA analysis, it would be challenging to pull these two species out of the genera they have been assigned to and join them in a single genus. Nevertheless, retrospectively observed genitalic similarity agrees with such placement.