Descriptions of three hundred new species of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Genomic sequencing and analysis offer a fast track to cataloguing biodiversity and facilitating species discovery. A comprehensive genomic study of Hesperiidae Latreille, 1809 (Lepidoptera), incorporating primary type specimens, uncovers a plethora of species previously unknown to science. Three hundred of them (one in a new genus, and one in a new subgenus) are described here (type localities are given in parentheses): Hasora vietnama Grishin, new species (Vietnam: Đắk Nong), Drephalys (Paradrephalys) oriana Grishin, new species (Panama: Colon), Drephalys (Paradrephalys) aurantior Grishin, new species (Panama: Colon), Drephalys (Paradrephalys) pulcher Grishin, new species (Panama: Panama Oeste), Drephalys (Drephalys) phoelides Grishin, new species (Panama: Panama), Drephalys (Drephalys) panamys Grishin, new species (Panama: Colon), Phanus centralis Grishin, new species (El Salvador: San Salvador), Phanus vitreides Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Orellana), Hyalothyrus inferna Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Tarsoctenus stenopapias Grishin, new species (Peru: Madre de Dios), Phocides tema Grishin, new species (Guatemala), Bungalotis lotis Grishin, new species (Belize), Dyscophellus porsenica Grishin, new species (Peru: Madre de Dios), Dyscophellus santamarta Grishin, new species (Colombia: Magdalena), Euriphellus huellus Grishin, new species (Colombia: Vaupes), Cecropterus (Cecropterus) spinipes Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul), Cecropterus (Thorybes) septelucis Grishin, new species (Mexico: Chiapas), Cecropterus (Murgaria) lapus Grishin, new species (Mexico: Sinaloa), Cecropterus (Murgaria) margo Grishin, new species (Mexico: Nayarit), Cecropterus (Murgaria) amazonensis Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Spicauda surprisa Grishin, new species (Brazil: Parana), Spicauda pecne Grishin, new species (Peru: Cajamarca), Urbanus (Urbanoides) xenophon Grishin, new species (Costa Rica: San Jose), Urbanus (Urbanus) torcidus Grishin, new species (Colombia: east), Urbanus (Urbanus) viterbo Grishin, new species (Colombia: east), Urbanus (Urbanus) alvinus Grishin, new species (Peru: Cuzco), Telegonus (Telegonus) alco Grishin, new species (Panama: Panama Oeste), Telegonus (Telegonus) loretus Grishin, new species (Peru: Loreto), Telegonus (Telegonus) tenebricus Grishin, new species (Mexico: Veracruz), Telegonus (Telegonus) colombus Grishin, new species (Colombia: Meta), Telegonus (Telegonus) argentinus Grishin, new species (Argentina: Misiones), Telegonus (Telegonus) chuchuvis Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Esmeraldas), Telegonus (Rhabdoides) lesus Grishin, new species (Colombia: Antioquia), Telegonus (Rhabdoides) fortis Grishin, new species (USA: Texas), Telegonus (Rhabdoides) occultus Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Telegonus (Rhabdoides) leptus Grishin, new species (Mexico: San Luis Potosi), Autochton (Autochton) xaca Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Autochton (Autochton) nama Grishin, new species (Panama: Panama Oeste), Autochton (Autochton) pacovena Grishin, new species (Venezuela: Zulia), Autochton (Autochton) pera Grishin, new species (Peru: Madre de Dios), Autochton (Autochton) colombianus Grishin, new species (Colombia: Choco), Autochton (Autochton) bipunctaticus Grishin, new species (Peru: Madre de Dios), Astraptes guyana Grishin, new species (Guyana), Epargyreus argentinicus Grishin, new species (Argentina: Jujuy), Epargyreus tmolucan Grishin, new species (Argentina: Tucuman), Chioides australis Grishin, new species (Bolivia: La Paz), Aguna peruander Grishin, new species (Peru: Amazonas), Aguna leucoriga Grishin, new species (Brazil: Minas Gerais), Aguna paraica Grishin, new species (Brazil: Para), Aguna paracoelus Grishin, new species (Brazil: Para), Aguna aguna Grishin, new species (Panama: Veraguas), Aguna manchancha Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Aguna guyanae Grishin, new species (Guyana), Aguna curvicoelus Grishin, new species (Panama: Darien), Aguna lumba Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Sucumbios), Aguna yasuna Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Orellana), Aguna stenozonius Grishin, new species (Guyana), Aguna latifasciata Grishin, new species (Peru: Loreto), Lobotractus bajasur Grishin, new species (Mexico: Baja California Sur), Lobotractus myseriana Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Ridens ankon Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Chimborazo), Ridens fulmina Grishin, new species (Peru: Huanuco), Ridens gracilis Grishin, new species (Panama: Darien), Venada chiapa Grishin, new species (Mexico: Chiapas), Venada maria Grishin, new species (Peru: Huanuco), Venada boliva Grishin, new species (Bolivia: La Paz), Cephise fulvus Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Ectomis (Asina) sine Grishin, new species (Mexico: Tamaulipas), Ectomis (Ectomis) lipas Grishin, new species (Mexico: Tamaulipas), Ectomis (Ectomis) pernicioides Grishin, new species (Brazil: Sao Paulo), Ectomis (Ectomis) albovenissima Grishin, new species (Brazil: Santa Catarina), Telemiades nidas Grishin, new species (Panama: Colon), Telemiades canticus Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Telemiades squador Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Napo), Polygonus amazonus Grishin, new species (Peru: Loreto), Typhedanus ampyxacus Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Typhedanus umbrosus Grishin, new species (Colombia), Cogia huila Grishin, new species (Mexico: Coahuila), Coladenia javi Grishin, new species (Indonesia: Java), Abaratha (Abaratha) bhutana Grishin, new species (Bhutan), Abantis (Caprona) ana Grishin, new species (Kenya: Mombasa), Mysoria (Mysarbia) centralia Grishin, new species (Panama: Darien), Gindanes brebus Grishin, new species (Peru: Loreto), Quadrus (Trifa) cobus Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Sucumbios), Quadrus (Quadrus) alis Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Quadrus (Quadrus) rialis Grishin, new species (Guatemala: Cayuga), Quadrus (Quadrus) tee Grishin, new species (Colombia: Antioquia), Quadrus (Quadrus) truncatoides Grishin, new species (Peru: Cuzco), Quadrus (Quadrus) lugubroides Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Quadrus (Tuberna) syntrophos Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Orellana), Quadrus (Cyrna) baris Grishin, new species (Mexico: San Luis Potosi), Quadrus (Cyrna) pacuvius Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Pastaza), Quadrus (Cyrna) rahus Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Tungurahua), Quadrus (Ebona) fuscus Grishin, new species (Panama: Panama), Quadrus (Ebona) atrus Grishin, new species (Panama: Chiriqui), Quadrus (Ebona) evanitza Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Quadrus (Zera) panamia Grishin, new species (Panama: Chiriqui), Quadrus (Zera) chinchia Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Pichincha), Quadrus (Zera) cinthinus Grishin, new species (Mexico: Veracruz), Milanion (Milanion) chelatus Grishin, new species (Peru: Huanuco), Milanion (Milanion) guianensis Grishin, new species (Guyana), Eantis (Minna) willa Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Eantis (Thilla) maurus Grishin, new species (Brazil: Para), Aethilla mexina Grishin, new species (Mexico: Veracruz), Achlyodes centralis Grishin, new species (Panama: Darien), Achlyodes cacaus Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Spioniades abbreviatissima Grishin, new species (Colombia: Meta), Spioniades ana Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Tungurahua), Mimia engana Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Oriente, Rio Engano), Xispia superquadrata Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Xispia equadra Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Napo), Myrinia distincta Grishin, new species (Peru: Amazonas), Morvina jana Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro), Morvina caura Grishin, new species (Venezuela: Suapure), Morvina cola Grishin, new species (Colombia: Boyaca), Cyclosemia hebes Grishin, new species (“Amazons”), Cyclosemia alatha Grishin, new species (Bolivia), Cyclosemia trichroma Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro), Cyclosemia andeania Grishin, new species (Peru: Amazonas), Cyclosemia mexicania Grishin, new species (Mexico: Veracruz), Cyclosemia decorata Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Zamora- Chinchipe), Cyclosemia supercaerulea Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Esmeraldas), Cyclosemia bolivia Grishin, new species (Bolivia: Santa Cruz), Cyclosemia rondonnius Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rondonia), Cyclosemia ecuadoria Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Napo), Cyclosemia peruvia Grishin, new species (Peru: Cuzco), Iliana (Nastrus) amazona Grishin, new subgenus and new species (Brazil: Amazonas) (type species of the subgenus), Tiana ater Grishin, new species (Panama: Cocle), Tiana nigerrima Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Pastaza), Nisoniades (Bezus) occibessus Grishin, new species (Peru: Madre de Dios), Nisoniades (Nisoniades) equaphora Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Loja), Bolla (Bovaria) damera Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Bolla (Bolla) aureiceps Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Pichincha), Bolla (Sebia) zuela Grishin, new species (Venezuela: Merida), Bolla (Sebia) guatemalensis Grishin, new species (Guatemala), Bolla (Stolla) bolla Grishin, new species (Bolivia: Cochabamba), Bolla (Stolla) manu Grishin, new species (Peru: Madre de Dios), Staphylus (Vulga) maria Grishin, new species (Peru: Huanuco), Staphylus (Vulga) cuzos Grishin, new species (Peru: Cuzco), Staphylus (Vulga) metos Grishin, new species (Colombia: Meta), Staphylus (Staphylus) panamicus Grishin, new species (Panama: Guna Yala), Pholisora suroesta Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Noctuana mimica Grishin, new species (Mexico: Oaxaca), Noctuana statoreca Grishin, new species (Ecuador: Napo), Noctuana statorana Grishin, new species (Guyana), Noctuana haematospilata Grishin, new species (Peru: Cuzco), Noctuana ventrovenata Grishin, new species (Peru: Cuzco), Windia sonoria Grishin, new species (Mexico: Sonora), Ernsta (Delaga) aspes Grishin, new species (Namibia: 4 km east of Otavi), Heliopetes (Heliopyrgus) willioides Grishin, new species (Argentina: Tucuman), Heliopetes (Heliopetes) arsaltines Grishin, new species (Brazil: Rio
Source: Insecta mundi
Institution: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Genetics
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G1080801014
OpenAlex ID: W4414533737