Perus 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 : 11-12

Perus Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Pholisora cordillerae Lindsey, 1925 .

Definition. Not closely related to any other genus. Formerly placed in Staphylus Godman and Salvin, [1896] , cordillerae is not monophyletic with the Staphylus type species Helias ascalaphus Staudinger, 1876 , nor with Scantilla opites Godman and Salvin, [1896] (a junior subjective synonym of Tagiades vincula Plötz, 1886 ) the type species of Scantilla Godman and Salvin, [1896] , a genus-group name treated as a subjective synonym of Staphylus ( Fig. 4 ). Keys to E.32.16, E.32.24b, E.32.26, or E. 32.34 in Evans (1953). Distinguished from Staphylus species by the following combination of characters: head and palpi above mostly brown, more prominent submarginal pale spots on both wings above, harpe shorter than or the same length as moderately expanded ampulla, directed posteriad, end of uncus pointed, tegumen expanded on the sides, bulbous, with a pair of side processes in some species. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly3014.2.4:A833G, aly9588.14.1:C77A, aly171.12.3:A1360C, aly 2532.10.1:A1294C, aly 2790.11.3:A787C.

Etymology. The name is a masculine noun in the nominative singular, derived from Peru, the locality of the type species and the county where many other species of this genus occur.

Species included. The type species, Staphylus mossi Evans, 1953 , Staphylus minor Schaus, 1902 , Antigonus coecatus Mabille, 1891 , and Nisoniades menuda Weeks, 1902 .

Parent taxon. Tribe Carcharodini Verity, 1940 .

Figures

Figure 4. Genomic trees of Carcharodini. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.