Veadda Grishin, 2019

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731, pp. 1-56 : 34

Veadda Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Lerema veadeira Mielke, 1968 .

Definition. Not closely related to any other genus, but falls near the clade of many Moncina genera, among which are Parphorus Godman, [1900] (type species Phlebodes storax Mabille, 1891 ), Phlebodes Hübner, [1819] (type species Papilio pertinax Stoll, 1781 ), Cantha Evans, 1955 (type species Cantha calva Evans, 1955 ), Saturnus Evans, 1955 (type species Papilio saturnus Fabricius, 1787 ), Penicula Evans, 1955 (type species Pamphila bryanti Weeks, 1906 ), and Duroca Grishin, 2019 (type species Hesperia duroca Plötz, 1882 ). Not closely related to Lerema Scudder, 1872 (type species Papilio accius Smith, 1797 ), where it was originally placed ( Fig. 11–12). Distinguished from them by a combination of the following characters: uncus divided, arms long, very close together; gnathos broader than uncus in ventral view, about 2/3 of uncus length; saccus nearly the same length as vinculum in lateral view; harpe short, less than 1/3 of valva, upturned, ending in a tooth directed dorsad, not separated from ampulla and not serrated; dorsal forewing with small ochre spots and tripartite gray stigma, lined with black scales basad; mostly ferruginous (a rather unusual color for Hesperiidae ) below, with faint ochreous spots on both wings. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly318.7.1:A1032G, aly1042.23.2:G113T, aly1042.23.2:A115G, aly 1487.4.1:A662G, aly164.9.1:A1676T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the first part of the type species name.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008.