Poeasia Grishin, 2019

Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui, Cong, Qian & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Genomic analysis of the tribe Emesidini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), Zootaxa 4668 (4), pp. 475-488 : 478

Poeasia Grishin, subgen. n.

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Type species: Emesis poeas Godman , [1901].

Diagnosis. Distinguished from its relatives by more rounded wings, especially in females, absence of metallic dashes and presence of broader, gray and somewhat silvery bands instead ( Fig. 2c ). In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: nuclear genome: cne703.2.8:A5082G, cne628.1.1:A2634G, cne8205.5.4:A837G, cne239.4.1:T1275C, cne 2803.9.1:A528C; COI barcode region: T13C, T154C, A208T, T533C, and T562C.

Derivation of the name. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular. It is formed from the type species name.

Species included: Only the type species.

Parent taxon: Genus Emesis Fabricius, 1807 .

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FIGURE 2. Sequenced specimens of new genera and subgenera proposed in this study. Dorsal and ventral sides are shown on the left and right, respectively, with the image letter in between. Gray letter F indicates that the mirror image (left-right invert- ed) is shown. DNA sample numbers are indicated for specimens, see Table S1 for other data. a. Curvie emesia, NVG-18045F09, on the right are male genitalia (with a 0.5 mm scale bar) of the specimen NVG-11913, data as for NVG-11914 (Table S1), but eclosed on 15-Feb-1974; b. Emesis (Mandania) mandana, NVG-18044D09; c. Emesis (Poeasia) poeas, NVG-18044G04; d. Emesis (Brimia) brimo, NVG-18045E01; e. Xanthosa xanthosa syntype, NVG-18054D08; f. Xanthosa xanthosa syntype, NVG- 18054D09; g. Xanthosa xanthosa syntype, NVG-18054D10; h. Emesis (Tenedia) tenedia, NVG-18086H06; i. Befrostia elegia syntype male, NVG-18052H02; j. Befrostia elegia syntype male, Brazil, coll. H. Stichel, #1089, NVG-18052H04; k. Befrostia elegia syntype female, no data, NVG-18052H03; l. Befrostia lalannei holotype, NVG-18086H06.All syntypes shown are from the ZMHB collection.