Tsukiyamaia,a new genus of the tribe Baorini (Lepidoptera,Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae) |
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| Authors: | Jian-Qing Zhu Hideyuki Chiba Li-Wei Wu |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Shanghai Zoological Park, 2381, Hongqiao Road, Shanghai, 200335, P.R. China;2.B. P. Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96817-0916 U.S.A.;3.The Experimental Forest, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, Nantou, Taiwan, R.O.C. |
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| Abstract: | Skippers of the tribe Baorini are evidently a monophyletic group in the subfamily Hesperiinae. In this study, a new Baorini member Tsukiyamaiaalbimaculagen. n. et sp. n. is described from north Myanmar, southwest China and north Vietnam. Despite its peculiar and striking wing-pattern, this new genus has some important characters of Baorini, such as a broad and bifid uncus and a well-developed gnathos. Based on an analysis of male genitalia and the molecular phylogenies inferred from both mitochondrial and nuclear genes (28 taxa, total aligned length: 2968 bp), it is proposed that the genus Tsukiyamaia is closely related to the genus Polytremis, which has high species diversity in China. This study not only describes a new skipper but also highlights that Tsukiyamaia is important in clarifying phylogenetic relationship of Polytremis and its allies. |
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| Keywords: | taxon-name" > genus" >Polytremis, new species, cox1, cox2, EF-1α |
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