Viuria Grishin 2019, new genus
Description
Viuria Grishin, new genus
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Type species. Pellicia licisca Plötz, 1882.
Definition. A sister genus to Viola Evans, 1953, distant from Pachyneuria Mabille, 1888 (type species Pachyneuria obscura Mabille, 1888), where species of this genus were formerly placed (Fig. 4). Keys to E. 20.7 in Evans (1953). Differs from Pachyneuria by the presence of long tufts of scales near hindwing costa above in males and swollen hindwing vein Sc+R 1, similar to Viola and Nisoniades Hübner, [1819], among others. Differ from Viola and other genera in genitalia and diagnosed by asymmetric uncus with asymmetric processes, reduced harpe of the right valva compared to the expanded rounded ampulla. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly1222.46.1:A28C, aly207.4.6:C1025G, aly 1019.7.7:T59A, aly 2012.7.7:C98G, aly638.27.5:T694A.
Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, a fusion of Vi [ola] and [Pachyne] uria.
Species included. The type species, Pachyneuria lista Evans, 1953, and Pellicia herophile Hayward, 1940.
Parent taxon. Tribe Carcharodini Verity, 1940.
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Viuria
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Grishin
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Viuria Grishin, 2019
References
- Evans, W. H. 1953. A catalogue of the American Hesperiidae indicating the classification and nomenclature adopted in the British Museum (Natural History). Part III. Pyrginae. Section 2. British Museum (Natural History); London. v + 246 p., pl. 26 - 53