Chitta 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 : 32

Chitta Grishin , new genus

http://zoobank.org/ BCD865CA-926C-43DB-9EEB-8E14E7296149

Type species. Phlebodes chittara Schaus, 1902.

Definition. A possible sister to the clade with Thoon Godman, [1900] (type species Proteides modius Mabille, 1889) and Halotus Godman, [1900] (type species Hesperilla saxula Mabille, 1891, a subjective junior synonym of Hesperia angellus Plötz, 1886) ( Fig. 11–12 ). Not monophyletic with Psoralis Mabille, 1904 (type species Psoralis sabaeus Mabille, 1904, currently considered a junior subjective synonym of Pamphila idee Weeks, 1901 ) where it was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Immediately distinguished from Psoralis by greenish ventral colors and a pattern of four pale dots on hindwing below, indeed reminiscent of Thoon . Genitalia illustrated by Bell (1959: fig. 24, as Psoralis alis Bell, 1959, a junior subjective synonym of Chitta chittara), quite distinctive and diagnostic: uncus and tegumen very short, look compressed, penis with a long titillator diverging from penis, valva peculiar, crooked with three teeth on harpe, directed dorsad, caudad and ventrad ( Bell 1959). In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly 1107.9.6:A335C, aly13410.7.2:T37C, aly 1838.8.3:G730G (not C), aly127.64.1:G1182G (not A), aly4966.20.2:A1499A (not G).

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular formed from 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.