Hoodus 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 : 14

Hoodus Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Hesperia pelopidas Fabricius, 1793 .

Definition. A sister genus to Echelatus Godman and Salvin, [1894] (type species Anastrus varius Mabille, 1883 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Anastrus sempiternus (Butler and Druce, 1872)) ( Fig. 6 ). Species of this new genus were placed in Mylon (type species Leucochitonea lassia Hewitson, 1868 ) previously, key to E. 50.10 in Evans (1953), and were defined as the “pelopidas” group by Austin (2000) who gave a detailed morphological diagnosis on p. 5 and 7, which is not repeated here. Most importantly, the two unique diagnostic characters are: vinculum in male genitalia is expanded dorsad on both sides to cover most of tegumen and uncus arms are very short. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly 1735.8.1:T625C, aly3616.13.2:A50G, aly 1036.5.1:A436C, aly 1735.8.1:C695T, aly 1735.8.1:A772C.

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, for the vinculum expanded as a hood over tegumen.

Species included. The pelopidas species group as defined by Austin (2000), which consists of the type species, Mylon cristata Austin, 2000 , Leucochitonea jason Ehrmann, 1907 , Mylon ozema var. exstincta Mabille and Boullet, 1917 , Mylon simplex Austin, 2000 , and Mylon argonautarum Austin, 2000 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Erynnina Brues and Carpenter, 1932.

Figures

Figure 6. Genomic trees of Erynnini. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.