Lurida Grishin, 2019

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731 (731), pp. 1-56 : 33

Lurida Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Cobalus lurida Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 .

Definition. A genus near Cymaenes Scudder, 1872 (type species Cobalus tripunctus Herrich-Schäffer, 1865 ) and not monophyletic with Nastra Evans, 1955 (type species Hesperia lherminier Latreille, [1824] ), where it was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J. 26.10 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by terminally broad and concave nearly divided uncus; gnathos reaches the end of uncus, weakly separated from it; harpe ventrally excavated, shaped like can opener (with a notch); dark brown cheeks; wings rather rounded, with areas of violet-gray overscaling at outer margins below; a curve of small pale postdiscal spots on ventral hindwing. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly386.7.5:A205C, aly5582.8.1:A1097T, aly138.11.7:G998C, aly84.96.4:G40A, aly5582.8.1:C1037T.

Etymology. The name, a feminine noun in the nominative singular, echoes the type species name.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008.

Figures

Figure 11. Nuclear genome and Z chromosome trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.

Figure 12. Mitochondrial genome and COI barcode trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.