Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 85

Picova Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Vorates steinbachi Bell, 1930 .

Definition. Currently in Saturnus Evans, 1955 (type species Papilio saturnus Fabricius, 1787 ), Vorates steinbachi Bell, 1930 (type locality Bolivia) and currently in Morys Godman, 1900 (type species Apaustus valerius Möschler, 1879 ), Euroto incompta Hayward, 1942 (type locality) are not monophyletic with the type species of the genera they are attributed to and instead are sister taxa in the genomic tree ( Fig. 15 ). Their clade is a weakly supported sister to Vistigma Hayward, 1939 (type species Vistigma xanthobasis Hayward, 1939 ) with Haza Grishin, 2019 (type species Hesperia hazarma Hewitson, 1877 ) and therefore is a genus. Keys to L.1.2 or J.20.2(a) (in part) in Evans (1955). This new genus is distinguished from its relatives by a beak-like directed dorsad projection on otherwise rounded, broad harpe, harpe not prominently separated from ampulla, saccus slightly shorter than vinculum, uncus narrowing in the middle with two knob-like divergent arms, penis shorter than valva; boomerang-shaped narrow brand at the base of cell CuA 1 -CuA 2. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly203.14.1:A408G, aly1146.42.8:A5096G, aly2250.14.1:A937C, aly151.17.2:C601A, and aly151.17.2:A3570C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the beak-shaped projection on valva: Pico + va [lva].

Species included. The type species and Euroto incompta Hayward, 1942 (see below).

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

Figure 15. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 3. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.