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 : 52

Hermio Grishin , new genus

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Type species. Falga ? hermione Schaus, 1913 .

Definition. Previously placed in Lento Evans, 1955 (type species Pamphila lento Mabille, 1878 ), but not monophyletic with it, clustering with Psoralis Mabille, 1904 (type species Psoralis sabaeus Mabille, 1904 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Pamphila idee Weeks, 1901 ) instead ( Fig. 13 ), but distantly: COI barcodes of their type species differ by 10.9% (72 bp). Keys to I. 3.1 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by the following combination of characters: antennae longer than half of forewing costal margin; third segment of palpi long, needle-like; hindwing discal cell shorter than half of wing, forewing apex and hindwing tornus rounded; uncus broad, arms knob-like, valvae narrow, asymmetrical, left harpe extended, apically narrowing, right harpe rounded, upturned, forming a cleft between it and ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly127.55.6:G65T, aly127.55.6:T69A, aly127.55.6:A113T, aly144.18.1:A190G, and aly4683.4.2:A2881C.

Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, for the slender build of these skippers, very long antennae and legs, and narrower wings than in their relatives.

Species included. The type species and Lento hermione vina Evans, 1955 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Moncina A. Warren, 2008 .

Figures

Figure 13. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 1, and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.