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 : 59

Godmia Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Euroto chlorocephala Godman, 1900

Definition. Placed by Evans (1955) in Onophas Godman, 1900 (type species Cobalus columbaria Herrich-Schäffer, 1870 ), the type species of this genus is not monophyletic with Onophas and instead is a phylogenetic lineage in the same clade with Halotus Godman 1900 (type species Hesperilla saxula Mabille, 1891 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia angellus Plötz, 1886 ) ( Fig. 13 ), but distant from it both genetically and morphologically. Therefore, this new genus is proposed. Keys to J. 51.3 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: antennae unusually long, longer than 2/3 of forewing costal margin; palpi flattened, 3 rd segment short; mid-tibiae spined; head and thorax covered with metallic-green scales above, also sparsely overscaling basal half of wings; wings largely unmarked dark-brown; hindwing below with a central pale spot and a postdiscal row of indistinct pale spots; fringes not checkered; dorsal forewing with distinctive brand of two segments: one near the base of cell CuA 1 -CuA 2, tear-shaped, narrowing distally; the other right below it adjacent to vein CuA 2 in cell CuA 2 -1A+2A, roundish. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly 2130.9.4:C87T, aly34048.2.6:G61A, aly525.35.8:T63C, aly318.14.4:T270C, and aly127.36.2:T312C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the author’s name of the type species. A number of Hesperiinae have back wings and shiny green-scaled head and thorax above, and one, the type species of this genus, was named by Godman, whose insight into classification of Hesperiidae with the focus on male genitalia and description of new genera is still unmatched.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

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