Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 40

Ocrypta Grishin , new subgenus

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Type species. Notocrypta caerulea Evans, 1928 .

Definition. The subgenus is not monophyletic with Notocrypta de Nicéville, 1889 (type species Plesioneura curvifascia C. Felder and R. Felder, 1862 ) despite wing pattern similarities, but is instead a probable sister to Udaspes Moore, [1881] (type species Papilio folus Cramer, 1775 ) ( Fig. 8). Keys to I.6.7a in Evans (1949). Distinguished from phenotypically similar Notocrypta with which it shares white discal forewing band and in some species white apical spots on otherwise dark-brown wings by the following combination of characters: forewing vein M 3 originates closer to vein M 2 than to vein CuA 1; white dorsal forewing band usually fills out the base of cell M 3 -CuA 1 and reaches costa (except in some darker specimens); in all species except N. renardi (Oberthür, 1878) antennae dark without pale ring at club and abdomen pale below. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly272.4.2:T91A, aly594.9.1:A660G, aly 1445.3.1:A475G, aly 1139.10.12:A524C, and aly1019.14.2:A193G.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed by removing “ Not ” from Notocrypta . Similar to how “ Not ” was added to Amblyscirtes Scudder, 1872 to form Notamblyscirtes Scott, 2006 , but in reverse.

Species included. The type species, Plesioneura renardi Oberthür, 1878 , Plesioneura waigensis Plötz, 1882 , Notocrypta aluensis Swinhoe, 1907 , Plesioneura flavipes Janson, 1886 , and Notocrypta maria Evans, 1949 .

Parent taxon. Genus Ancistroides Butler, 1874 .