Corra 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 : 33

Corra Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Hesperia coryna Hewitson, [1866] .

Definition. A sister genus to Lurida gen. n. and is in a different clade from Vettius Godman, [1901] (type species Papilio phyllus Cramer, [1777] ) where it was placed previously ( Fig. 11–12 ). Keys to J. 45.20 in Evans (1955). No brands or stigmas in males, forewing above with pale scaling along anal margin, hindwing below with dark costa and pale ray from base to outer margin above the middle of discal cell and a dark ray below it. Uncus and gnathos deeply divided, arms narrow, far apart, gnathos the same length as uncus, saccus long, as vinculum in lateral view, valva broad, not longer than twice the width, harpe narrow, short and upturned, rounded at the tip. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly686.30.9:A280T, aly345.16.1:A127T, aly527.10.7:A209G, aly451.23.2:A331C, aly529.9.1:C862A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the beginning of the type species name.

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.