Viuria 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 : 9-10

Viuria Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Pellicia licisca Plötz, 1882 .

Definition. A sister genus to Viola Evans, 1953 , distant from Pachyneuria Mabille, 1888 (type species Pachyneuria obscura Mabille, 1888 ), where species of this genus were formerly placed ( Fig. 4 ). Keys to E. 20.7 in Evans (1953). Differs from Pachyneuria by the presence of long tufts of scales near hindwing costa above in males and swollen hindwing vein Sc+R 1, similar to Viola and Nisoniades Hübner, [1819] , among others. Differ from Viola and other genera in genitalia and diagnosed by asymmetric uncus with asymmetric processes, reduced harpe of the right valva compared to the expanded rounded ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1222.46.1:A28C, aly207.4.6:C1025G, aly 1019.7.7:T59A, aly 2012.7.7:C98G, aly638.27.5:T694A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, a fusion of Vi [ola] and [Pachyne] uria.

Species included. The type species, Pachyneuria lista Evans, 1953 , and Pellicia herophile Hayward, 1940 .

Parent taxon. Tribe Carcharodini Verity, 1940 .

Figures

Figure 4. Genomic trees of Carcharodini. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.