Haza Grishin, 2019

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731, pp. 1-56 : 30-31

Haza Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Hesperia hazarma Hewitson, 1877 .

Definition. A sister to Penicula Evans, 1955 (type species Pamphila bryanti Weeks, 1906 ), this genus is away from Cobalopsis Godman, [1900] (type species Pamphila edda Mabille, 1891 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia autumna Plötz, 1882 ) ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J. 37.9 in Evans (1955), but very variable in hindwing patterns, from virtually brown unspotted to pale cream with brown-yellow veins and several central black spots surrounded by yellow or brown. Diagnosed by male genitalia with uncus not protruding from tegumen, very broad caudad with tiny knob-like arms on the side, uncus together with tegumen almost square in dorsal view, valva with very narrow extended hook-shaped harpe like no other Hesperiini . In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly274.33.1:A430C, aly2202.27.1:C668A, aly 2613.3.2:A2043C, aly 2613.3.2:C2248A, aly587.20.1:T1522C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, containing the first four letters of 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.