Lissia 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 : 22-23

Lissia Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Leona lissa Evans, 1937.

Definition. A genus more related to Gamia Holland, 1896 (type species Proteides galua Holland, 1891) and Artitropa Holland, 1896 (type species Pamphila erynnis Trimen, 1862 ) than to Leona Evans, 1937 (type species Hesperia leonora Plötz, 1879) ( Fig. 9 ). Keys to VIII.59.C(b) in Evans (1937) and differs from its relatives, including Leona , by a well-defined gnathos reaching about half of uncus length (in lateral view); tegumen plus uncus twice as long as wide, hour-glass shaped in ventral view; uncus divided, arms short and stout, knob-like; valva with harpe close to rectangular; hindwing with a postdiscal band of spots above. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly127.66.15: T199 A, aly 1149.1.1:A1727G, aly822.30.12:A417C, aly490.3.1:A60A (not G), aly6339.4.1:G167G (not T), aly 1121.3.2:C344C (not T).

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

Species included. The type species and Plastingia luehderi Plötz, 1879.

Parent taxon. Tribe Astictopterini Swinhoe, 1912.

Figures

Figure 9. Genomic trees of Astictopterini and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.