Bralus 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 : 18

Bralus Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Anisochoria albida Mabille, 1888 .

Definition. A genus related to Zopyrion Godman and Salvin, 1896 (type species Zopyrion sandace Godman and Salvin, [1896] ), Timochreon Godman and Salvin, 1896 (type species Helias satyrus C. and R. Felder, [1867]), and Anisochoria Mabille, 1876 (type species Anisochoria polysticta Mabille, 1876 , now considered a subspecies of Anisochoria pedaliodina (Butler, 1870)) with its junior subjective synonym Dicrosema Bryk, 1953 (type species Dicrosema quadrifenestrata Bryk, 1953 ), but without obvious affinity to either one of these genera ( Fig. 7 ). Keys to E. 59.8 in Evans (1953). Morphologically, distinguished from its relatives by almost symmetric valvae with smaller unmodified harpe, ampulla without a process (just with a small knob), and uncus with a pair of short and thin processes at its distal end, between the arms that are widely set apart. Hindwing above with a wide whitish area. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly8048.1.4:A65G, aly3881.2.1:A178G, aly1097.18.4:G805C, aly 1443.3.4:T238T (not G), aly 1443.3.4:C239C (not A), aly890.35.8:T164T (not A).

Etymology. The name, a masculine noun in the nominative singular, is a fusion of br [unneis], a [lbum], and lu [teu] s: the three colors of the type species.

Species included. Only the type species.

Parent taxon. Tribe Pyrgini Burmeister, 1878 .

Comments. Yet another genus that would be difficult to detect without DNA analysis.

Figures

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