Dubia 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 : 31

Dubia Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Euroto (?) dubia Bell, 1932 .

Definition. A sister genus to Phlebodes Hübner, [1819] (type species Papilio pertinax Stoll, [1781] ), but not monophyletic with and far removed from Thoon Godman, [1900] (type species Proteides modius Mabille, 1889 ), where it was previously placed ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J. 48.4 in Evans (1955). Genitalia illustrated by Bell in his fig. 3 ( Bell 1932). Distinguished from its relatives by elongated uncus with short arms; gnathos widely separated from uncus, about half of its length in lateral view; saccus long, about the same length as valva, valva hourglass shaped in lateral view, harpe rounded, with finely serrated dorsal margin, not separated from ampulla; dorsal forewing with two hyaline spots in discal cell and small brands at the origin and between veins CuA 1 and CuA 2; 2-5 small postdiscal dark spots, some with hyaline centers, placed along smooth curve on brown hindwing below. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly 1281.8.1:A614T, aly390.17.1: T17 C, aly 1260.9.2: T347 G, aly158825.1.3:A37A (not G), aly6286.5.7:A87A (not T), aly5543.13.1:A1601A (not G).

Etymology. The name, a feminine noun in the nominative singular, echoes the type species name.

Species included. Only the type species.

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.