Canesia 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 : 17-18

Canesia Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Leucochitonea canescens R. Felder, 1869 .

Definition. A sister genus to Xenophanes Godman and Salvin, 1895 (type species Papilio tryxus Stoll, 1780 ), not so closely related to Carrhenes Godman and Salvin, 1895 (type species Leucochitonea fuscescens Mabille, 1891 ), where these species were placed previously ( Fig. 7 ). Keys to E.51.2b in Evans (1953), defined as the canescens group by Austin (2000), but excluding C. santes , a species placed here in Santa , gen. n. Morphologically, distinguished from Carrhenes by the lack of mushroom-shaped process from the ampulla. The ampulla process in this genus is small, and harpe is small and narrow giving valva the appearance of a crab claw. Forewing without hyaline discal spots near costa. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1146.42.8:A2540T, aly27.16.1:A577C, aly275211.5.4:T821C, aly536.106.2:A296T, aly536.106.2:C295A.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, inspired by the name of the type species and a Latin word for crab (cancer), indicating the crab-claw shape of the genitalic valva.

Species included. The “canescens” group of Austin (2000), including the type species, Achlyodes leada Butler, 1870 , Carrhenes lilloi Hayward, 1947 , Carrhenes recurva Austin, 2000 , Carrhenes callipetes Godman and Salvin, [1895] , Carrhenes meridensis Godman and Salvin, [1895] .

Parent taxon. Tribe Pyrgini Burmeister, 1878 .

Figures

Figure 7. Genomic trees of Pyrgini. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.