Vertica brasta ( Evans, 1955 ) 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 : 94

Vertica brasta ( Evans, 1955) , new combination

Named by Evans (1955) in Lychnuchus Hübner, [1831] (type species Lychnuchus olenus Hübner, [1831] , which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia celsus Fabricius, 1793 ), brasta (type locality Peru: Chanchamayo) is not in the same subtribe with it (in Carystina Mabille, 1878 , while Lychnuchus celsus is in Moncina A. Warren, 2008 ) and confidently clusters with specimens identified as being in the genus Vertica Evans, 1955 (type species Hesperia verticalis Plötz, 1882 ) ( Fig. 17 ). Due to this confident relationship arguing against a monotypic new genus for brasta , we propose Vertica brasta ( Evans, 1955) , new combination.

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Figure 17. Genomic tree of Carystina, Pericharini, Megathymini and relatives. Clades corresponding to new subtribes described in this work are highlighted in green. See Fig. 1 legend for other notations.