Canesia 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 : 17-18

Canesia Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Leucochitonea canescens R. Felder, 1869 .

Definition. A sister genus to Xenophanes Godman and Salvin, 1895 ( type species Papilio tryxus Stoll, 1780 ), not so closely related to Carrhenes Godman and Salvin, 1895 ( type species Leucochitonea fuscescens Mabille, 1891 ), where these species were placed previously ( Fig. 7 ). Keys to E.51.2b in Evans (1953), defined as the canescens group by Austin (2000), but excluding C. santes , a species placed here in Santa , gen. n. Morphologically, distinguished from Carrhenes by the lack of mushroom-shaped process from the ampulla. The ampulla process in this genus is small, and harpe is small and narrow giving valva the appearance of a crab claw. Forewing without hyaline discal spots near costa. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1146.42.8:A2540T, aly27.16.1:A577C, aly275211.5.4:T821C, aly536.106.2:A296T, aly536.106.2:C295A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, inspired by the name of the type species and a Latin word for crab (cancer), indicating the crab-claw shape of the genitalic valva.

Species included. The “canescens” group of Austin (2000), including the type species, Achlyodes leada Butler, 1870 , Carrhenes lilloi Hayward, 1947 , Carrhenes recurva Austin, 2000 , Carrhenes callipetes Godman and Salvin, [1895] , Carrhenes meridensis Godman and Salvin, [1895] .

Parent taxon. Tribe Pyrgini Burmeister, 1878 .

Figures

Figure 7. Genomic trees of Pyrgini. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.