Orphe Godman 1901
Creators: name: Suênia-Bastos, Ayane
name: Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
name: Casagrande, Mirna Martins
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Orphe

description: Orphe Godman, 1901
(Figs 1–7)
Orphe Godman, 1901, in Godman & Salvin. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep.-Rhop. 2, p. 619; type species: Hesperia gerasa Hewitson. - Godman, 1901, in Godman & Salvin. Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep.-Rhop. 2, p. 619.-Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman. Gen. Ins. 17, p. 121, 128.-Draudt, 1923, in Seitz. Gross-Schmett. Erde 5, p. 991.-Lindsey, 1925. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 18: 95.-Hayward, 1934. Rev. Soc. ent. arg. 6: 101.- Williams & Hayward, 1944. Acta zool. Lill. 2: 222.-Bell, 1946. Bol. Ent. venezol. 5: 180.- Hayward, 1947. Acta zool. Lill. 4: 366.- Evans, 1955. Cat. Amer. Hesp. 4, p. 208, 246.-Hemming, 1967. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Ent., Suppl. 9: 325.-Lamas, 1969. Biota 7: 338.-Beattie, 1976. Rhop. Direct., p. 43.- Bridges, 1983. Lep. Hesp. 2, p. 24.-Bridges, 1988. Cat. Hesp. 2, p. 39; App. 2, p. 3.-Bridges, 1988. Cat. Fam.-Group & Gen.-Group Nam., 2 nd ed., 4, p. 93; 5, p. 3.-Bridges, 1994. Cat. Fam.-Group, Gen.-Group, Sp.-Group Nam., Hesp. (Lep.) World 4, p. 22; 5, p. 3; 6, p. 7; 9, p. 44.-O. Mielke, 2004. Hesperioidea, p. 9, 74, in Lamas (ed.). Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea, in Heppner (ed.). Atlas Neotrop. Lep. 5A.-O. Mielke, 2005. Cat. Amer. Hesperioidea 5, p. 1126.-Warren, Ogawa & A. Brower, 2008. Cladistics 24: 669.-Warren, Ogawa & A. Brower, 2009. Syst. Ent. 34: 498, 516.- Li et al., 2019. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc. 116 (13): 6232-6237, S1 App., p. 3, 8.-Toussaint & Warren 2019. Jour. Nat. Hist. 53: 35-36, p. 2175; eye, ethol.- Zhang et al., 2022. Insecta Mundi 921: 98.
Orfhe [sic]; O. Mielke, 2005. Cat. Amer. Hesperioidea 5, p. 1126.
Orphe sp. Piñas, 2006. Marip. Ecuador 9. Fam. Hesperiidae. Quito, Comp. Jesus, 9, p. 15, 76, figs 936, 937 (male d, v), 938, 939 (male d, v), 940, 941 (male d, v).
Type species
Hesperia gerasa Hewitson, 1867, designated by Godman (1901).
Species included
Orphe gerasa (Hewitson, 1867), Orphe vatinius Godman, 1901.
Etymology
Not informed by the author.
Diagnosis
This genus is distinguished from the other Pericharini genera by the following characters: male DFW with a continuous stigma between CuA 1 and 2A, characterized by a row of scales along its external edge or several wavy-looking rows of scales (Figs 3A, B), a unique feature among Pericharini genera. Male HW with the origin of Rs curved towards the costal margin (Fig. 3C). Male genitalia (Figs 4, 5) with tegumen slightly projected over uncus; valva, harpe with bifid or trifid dorso-distal projections and spines; aedeagus, cornuti present, more conspicuous in O. vatinius. Female genitalia (Fig. 6) with the lamella antevaginalis formed by two lateral plates directing towards the lamella postvaginalis, and with a broad median projection in direction to lamella postvaginalis.
Redescription
Head: antenna dorsally and ventrally brown, base of club yellow; nudum, 15–16 segments. Eyelash present, brown and short. Eye red (Glassberg 2017).
Thorax: mesotibia and metatibia not spined. Male DFW brown, with six or seven white hyaline spots in the discal cell, R 3 – R 4, R 4 – R 5, R 5 –M 1, M 2 –M 3, M 3 –CuA 1, and CuA1–CuA2; continuous stigma between CuA 1 and 2A, characterized by a row of scales on its external edge or several wavy-looking rows of scales (Figs 3A, B), a unique feature among Pericharini genera. Female DFW brown with one more hyaline spot above 2A. DHW brown in both sexes. FW with recurring vein; dcs present; distance between the origins of CuA 1 and CuA 2 wider than the origins between M 3 and CuA 1. Male HW with Rs curved towards costal margin (Fig. 3C).
Abdomen: male genitalia (Figs 4, 5) with tegumen wider than longer, projecting over uncus; ventral projection of tegumen in relation to valva, straight or oblique. Tegumen + uncus shorter than length of the valva. Uncus shorter than tegumen. Gnathos with dark punctuations or a few spines distally. Valva, harpe with bifid or trifid dorso-distal projections and spines; ampulla directed towards the dorsal or the distal portions; sacculus without setae. Fultura inferior with two antero-lateral projections. Aedeagus as long as the length of saccus + valva as in O. vatinius, or shorter as in O. gerasa; cornuti present, more conspicuous in O. vatinius. Female genitalia (Fig. 6) with lamella antevaginalis formed by two lateral plates directed towards the lamella postvaginalis with broad median projection directed towards the lamella postvaginalis. Lamella postvaginalis as a transversal line. Papilla analis rectangular, totally sclerotized in O. gerasa or with the posterior portion sclerotized in O. vatinius. Ductus bursae striated and longer than the corpus bursae.
Key to species of Orphe
1 Wings, in male and female, ventrally covered with lilac scales in apical and submarginal areas (Fig. 1). Male stigma with a single row of grey scales along its edge (Fig. 3A).................................................. Orphe gerasa
- Male wings ventrally covered with ferruginous scales (Fig. 2A–B); stigma with several wavy-looking rows of scales (Fig. 3B). Female VHW usually with grey scales in central and submarginal areas (Fig. 2D), sometimes yellowish (Fig. 2F).................................................................................................. Orphe vatinius
description: Published as part of Suênia-Bastos, Ayane, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2025, Taxonomic revision of Orphe Godman, 1901 (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Pericharini: Orphina), pp. 131-144 in Zootaxa 5604 (2) on pages 132-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/15035622