Vernia Grishin, 2019

Vernia Grishin , new genus

http://zoobank.org/ 980834C1-C6C5-4172-B5BB- 151246 B12F1A

Type species. Pamphila verna Edwards, 1862 .

Definition. A genus in the same clade with Hesperia Fabricius, 1793 View in CoL ( type species: Papilio comma Linnaeus, 1758 View in CoL ), Atalopedes Scudder, 1872 View in CoL ( type species Hesperia huron Edwards, 1863 View in CoL ), and Pseudocopaeodes Skinner and Williams, 1923 View in CoL ( type species Copaeodes eunus Edwards, 1881 View in CoL ), but not closely related with any particular one. Pompeius Evans, 1955 View in CoL ( type species Hesperia pompeius Latreille, [1824] View in CoL ), where species from this genus were placed previously, is in a different clade from them ( Fig. 13 View Figure 13 ). Keys to M.15.2 or M. 15.5 in Evans (1955). Distinguished from its relatives by divided uncus with short and stout arms; thin gnathos arms, longer than uncus; valva with harpe about half of its length, unturned, terminating with two broad teeth directed dorsocaudad, no bristles; apiculus of six segments, nudum not black; stigma tripartite on dorsal forewing of males; pale spot distad of stigma segment in dorsal forewing cell CuA 1 -CuA 2 occupies the whole width of the cell. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly443.32.2:G99C, aly2487.36.2: T119 G, aly443.32.2:A97G, aly887.14.12:A1715G, aly2096.38.5:A32C.

Etymology. The name, a feminine noun in the nominative singular, reflects the type species name.

Species included. The type species and Hesperia dares Plötz, 1883 .

Parent taxon. Subtribe Hesperiina Latreille, 1809.