Buzella 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 : 37-39

Buzella Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Buzyges mellanaformis Austin and A. Warren, 2009 .

Definition. Not monophyletic with Buzyges idothea Godman, [1900] , the type species of Buzyges Godman, [1900] , this genus is placed in a different clade instead ( Fig. 13 ). Detailed diagnosis of mellanaformis given by Austin and Warren (2009:28, fig. 70, 82, 90) can be applied to this genus ( Austin and Warren 2009). In brief, differs from related genera by long antennae, the lack of stigma, short tegumen and uncus and relatively small valva with broad trapezoid harpe (shared with Buzyges ), but penis narrower and cornuti are smaller than in Buzyges (see Fig. 70 and 82 in Austin and Warren (2009)), mid- and hind-tibiae without spines characteristic of Buzyges and forewing outer margin more convex. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly386.7.5:A874T, aly207.4.6:A367T, aly320.7.8:G428A, aly128.6.20:C131C (not G), aly708.6.1:A1197A (not G), aly1838.58.4:T1070T (not C), aly536.174.1:A1825A (not C), aly2582.33.4:A512A (not T), aly3071.1.1:C135C (not T).

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the type species original name Buz [yges m] ella [naformis].

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Subtribe Hesperiina Latreille, 1809.

Figures

Figure 13. Genomic trees of Hesperiina, Pericharini and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.