Description of Uniphylus gen. nov., a new genus of Carcharodini (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Pyrginae) for Staphylus evemerus Godman & Salvin, 1896.

José Ricardo A Lemes Ricardo Russo Siewert Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke Mirna Martins Casagrande Andrew David Warren

Published in: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias (2023)

Staphylus evemerus Godman & Salvin, 1896 is a species with a unique set of morphological characters within Carcharodini. Also, mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) sequences analysis demonstrated a large genetic distance with other related genera of the tribe. Therefore, this paper aims to describe a new genus for this species, which is named as Uniphylus gen. nov. Besides the morphological redescription of the male of Uniphylus evemerus (Godman & Salvin, 1896) new comb., the description of the female is provided for the first time, as well as an updated distributional map with all records known so far for this species.

Keyphrases

genetic diversity
dna methylation
copy number
protein kinase
drug induced