Daron Grishin, new genus

http://zoobank.org/ D4A2E257-03F9-4DA7-B668-CDB6BBE9C420

Type species. Thracides seron Godman, [1901] .

Definition. Removed from Neoxeniades Hayward, 1938 (type species Neoxeniades musarion Hayward, 1938) where it was formerly placed and a sister to Damas Godman, 1901 (type species Goniloba clavus Herrich-Schäffer, 1869), this genus differs from it by about 12% in the COI barcode region (Fig. 10). Keys to O. 16.5 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: antennae longer than 2/3 of costa, palpi flattened and pointed upwards, 3rd segment short, stout, mid-tibiae without spines, forewings elongated, discal cell without pale spots, as long as inner margin, uncus two times shorter than tegumen, with small knob-like rounded arms, penis undulate, valva simple, twice as long as wide, ampulla leveled with the rest of the valva, harpe about 1/3 of the valva length, slightly upturned, broad, with serrate dorsal margin. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly767.14.7:A754C, aly 1775.4.5:A83T, aly140.7.3:T104A, aly851.3.4:C1900C (not T), aly536.9.2:A221A (not T), aly531.4.3:G193G (not T).

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, a fusion of the type species names Da [mas+se] ron.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Carystina Mabille 1878 .