Ajenorix Grishin, new genus

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Type species. Rapala hypargyria Elwes, 1893 .

Definition. Genomic phylogeny reveals that several species placed in Deudorix Hewitson, 1863 (type species Dipsas epijarbas F. Moore, 1858) are not monophyletic with it and instead form a clade sister to several other genera, such as Bindahara F. Moore, 1881 (type species Hesperia phocides Fabricius, 1793) and Capys Hewitson, 1865 (type species Papilio alpheus Cramer, 1777), among others (Fig. 24 red), and, therefore, this clade corresponds to a new genus. This new genus differs from its relatives by having unusual for the group ventral wing patterns, i.e., instead of the typical grayish brown ground color with slightly darker bands framed with white lines separated into spots, species of the new genus are pearly gray with round brown spots, or creamy white with brown margins but without discal or postdiscal brown bands. In DNA, a combination of the following characters is diagnostic in the nuclear genome: cce2070. 17.4:C477T, cce303125.12.1:A1164T, cce303125.12.1:T1191A, cce8301.4.10:A198G, cce8301.4.10:A243G; and COI barcode: A22T, A46T, A298T, A316T, A370T.

Etymology. In Spanish, deudo means relative, and ajeno means outsider, stranger, alien, or not-fitting, reflecting that this new genus does not fit within Deudorix: Ajeno + [Deudo] rix. According to the genomic phylogeny, this genus is an “outsider”—that is, sister to the rest of the clade. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular.

Species included. The type species (i.e., Rapala hypargyria Elwes, 1893), Deudorix apayao H. Schroeder & Treadaway, 1983, Deudorix cleora L. Miller & J. Miller, 1986, Deudorix novellus Yagishita, 2006, Deudorix philippinensis H. Schröder, Treadaway & Hayashi, 1981, and Deudorix toxopeusi Tennent, C. Müller & Rawlins, 2010.

Parent taxon. Tribe Deudorigini Doherty, 1886 .