Brownus 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 : 28-29

Brownus Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Paratrytone browni Bell, 1959 .

Definition. Unexpectedly, a relative of Amblyscirtes Scudder, 1872 (type species Hesperia vialis Edwards, 1862 ) and is sister to Remella Hemming, 1939 (type species Hesperia remus Fabricius, 1798 ) with Mnasicles Godman, [1901] (type species Mnasicles geta Godman, 1901 ), which all are in a different subtribe (Moncina) from Paratrytone Godman, [1900] (type species Paratrytone rhexenor Godman, 1900 ) (in Hesperiina) where this lineage was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Distinguished from its relatives by sacculus about as long as vinculum with tegumen in lateral view, valva simple, nearly diamond-shaped with vary narrow harpe ending in a point directed dorsoposteriad and not separated from ampulla, very long antennae reaching apical spots near costa, all (except the small cell spot) forewing spots forming a continuous line (separated by black veins only) and most spots in a line on ventral hindwing. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly28779.8.7:T461C, aly577.34.1:C115G, aly1370.21.5:A2861G, aly531.10.5:G517C, aly2124.3.99:A3193G.

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, for the type species.

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.