Crenda 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 : 16

Crenda Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Chiomara crenda Evans, 1953 .

Definition. A genus without close relatives ( Fig. 6 ). Keys to F. 13.5 in Evans (1953) who gives a detailed diagnosis. Importantly, genitalia (except saccus and penis) are close to symmetrical, especially the uncus. Both uncus and valvae are highly asymmetrical in Chiomara Godman and Salvin, 1899 and other related genera such as Theagenes Godman and Salvin, 1896 , Gorgythion Godman and Salvin, 1896 . Symmetrical uncus with a pair of side processes on each side at its base, diagnostic of the genus. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly318.44.1:C664A, aly114.5.7:A142T, aly114.5.7:G143C, aly1294.17.1:A1681C, aly536.188.2:G103C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, and is a tautonymous name.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Erynnina Brues and Carpenter, 1932.

Figures

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