Fidius 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 : 33-34

Fidius Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Vidius fido Evans, 1955 .

Definition. A possible sister to Cymaenes Scudder, 1872 (type species Cobalus tripunctus Herrich- Schäffer, 1865) and far removed from Vidius Evans, 1955 (type species Narga vidius Mabille, 1891 ) where it was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J. 24.1 in Evans (1955). Genitalia illustrated by Mielke in his fig. 5–8 ( Mielke 1980). Distinguished from its relatives by antennae shorter than half of costa length, wings rounded, broad, scales in fringes long, especially on forewing, nearly the same as palpi in length, wings almost entirely unmarked, chocolate brown, in some specimens, wings below with faint, blotchy yellowish spots consisting of a few scales and forming postdiscal bands and a discal cell spot on hindwing. Valva narrow, ~2-3 times longer than wide, harpe distally slightly to moderately upturned not well-separated from valva, costa of valva straight, uncus narrowly divided, arms short, close together, gnathos the same length as uncus, saccus as long as tegumen with uncus, penis narrow, twice as long as saccus. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly2096.50.1:A1451C, aly349.40.1:A898C, aly164.63.12:C436A, aly164.63.12:A437T, aly5965.2.3:C1150G.

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular. It is a fusion of the type species name with its original genus name: Fid [o] + [Vid] ius.

Species included. The type species and Vidius ochraceus O. Mielke, 1980 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008.

Figures

Figure 11. Nuclear genome and Z chromosome trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.

Figure 12. Mitochondrial genome and COI barcode trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.