Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 58-59

Gufa Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Phlebodes gulala Schaus, 1902 .

Definition. Mucia gulala ( Schaus, 1902) (type locality Brazil: Rio de Janeiro) and Tigasis fusca ( Hayward, 1940) (type species Brazil: Santa Catarina ) are not monophyletic with the genera they are currently assigned to and are sisters instead ( Fig. 13 ), and their clade is a moderately supported (and therefore distant) sister of Chitta Grishin, 2019 (type species Phlebodes chittara Schaus, 1902 ). Keys to L.9.3 (as Mucia visa Evans, 1955 , currently a junior subjective synonym of M. gulala ) or J. 44.6 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: wings produced, in particular hindwing tornal area; forewing with inconspicuous tripartite stigma; palpi flattened, slender, 3rd segment short; antennae long, about 2/3 of costal margin length; mid-tibial with spines; uncus with flanges on the sides; saccus short, shorter than uncus, aedeagus with modifications at the distal end, shorter than valva, valva elongated, harpe half of valva in length, not separated from ampulla, distally flattened and notched. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1603.75.10:T114C, aly123.8.2:G150T, aly640.20.4:C120T, aly517.7.11:C28T, and aly 2692.8.2:C57A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the names of species placed in the genus: Gu [lala]+ f [usc] a.

Species included. The type species and Lerema fusca Hayward, 1940 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

Figure 13. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 1, and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.