Santa Grishin, 2019

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731, pp. 1-56 : 16-17

Santa Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Carrhenes santes Bell, 1940 .

Definition. A genus related to Plumbago Evans, 1953 , Paches Godman and Salvin, 1895 and Carrhenes Godman and Salvin, 1895 ( Fig. 7). Keys to E.43.3 or E. 52.4 in Evans (1953), one species previously placed in Paches Godman and Salvin, [1895] (type species Pythonides loxus Westwood, [1852] ) the other one in Carrhenes Godman and Salvin, 1895 (type species Leucochitonea fuscescens Mabille, 1891 ). Distinguished from others by brown wings with darker spots and stripes above and a black spot near the hindwing tornus below. Male genitalia with a process (style) from ampulla, uncus divided, arms about as long as wide, harpe longer than wide. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly5021.3.22:G847C, aly 2103.4.2:G472A, aly528.2.2:G1190T, aly528.2.2:G1191T, aly839.26.5:A464T.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, derived from the type species name.

Species included. The type species and Paches trifasciatus Lindsey, 1925 .

Parent taxon. Tribe Pyrgini Burmeister, 1878 .

Comment. While neither of these two species fit well into the genera they were assigned to previously, due to differences in genitalia and wing patterns between the two species, their sister relationship is not obvious without genomic analysis.