Pericharini Grishin 2019
Creators: name: Suênia-Bastos, Ayane
name: Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
name: Casagrande, Mirna Martins
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Lepidoptera

description: Pericharini Grishin, 2019
(Figs 1–106)
Pericharini Grishin, 2019, in Li et al. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sc. 116 (13): 6234, S1 App., p. 3, 7, 8, 54.— Grishin, 2019. Tax. Rept. Intern. Lep. Surv. 8 (1): 8; type genus: Perichares Scudder, 1872.— Cong et al., 2019. Insecta Mundi 731: 6, fig. 1 (genomic tree).— Toussaint & Warren 2019. Jour. Nat. Hist. 53: 35–36, p. 2175; eye.—Bizarro & Martin, 2020. Guide Butt. Serra dos Orgãos. South-eastern Brazil, p. 268.—Kawahara et al., 2023. Nat. Ecol. & Evol. 7: 903–913, Fig. S1 (time calibrated tree).
Type genus
Perichares Scudder, 1872, designated by Grishin (29-III-2019).
Description
Head: antenna longer than the half-length of the forewing; nudum, 11–19 segments. Labial palpus, in dorsal view, quadrantic; third segment rounded and shorter (Figs 61–66) than the second segment, this robust. Eye predominantly red. Eyelash usually present in Orphe, Oenides vulpina, Oz ozias, Perichares butus, P. colenda, P. forbesi, P. manu, and P. metallica.
Thorax: mesotibia with or without spines, with a pair of apical spurs; metatibia with or without spines, with two pair of spurs; last tarsomere of all legs with a pair of long setae. Remarkable sexual dimorphism in wing pattern, except in Perichares metallica (Fig. 51–52). Male DFW usually with stigma continuous or discontinuous (absent in Lycas argentea and L. devanes, Perichares colenda, P. forbesi and P. metallica); when present, in CuA 1 –CuA 2 (P. seneca), or between CuA 1 and 2A; usually narrow or broad half-moon-shaped (Figs 67–71), or (<)-shaped as in P. saptine (Fig. 72), or two tiny rounded pieces as in P. romeroi (Fig. 73). Male usually without hyaline spot below CuA 2, except in Oz ozias, O. sebastiani, Perichares forbesi, P. metallica, and P. saptine; present in female, except in Orphe vatinius and Pseudorphe pyrex. FW discal cell longer than the half of the wing; upper half of discal cell distally more projected than lower half; recurring vein M present in discal cell (Figs 74–81); origin of M 2 nearer to M 3 than M 1; dcs usually present; distance between origins of CuA 1 –CuA 2 wider than between origins of M 3 –CuA 1 in male and female, except in species of Orses, P. haworthiana, and P. manu where the distance between CuA 1 –CuA 2 is narrower than origin of M 3 –CuA 1 in male, and the opposite in female (Figs 80–81).
Abdomen: male genitalia with harpe usually spined dorso-distally (Fig. 82–84, 86–87), except in Lycas (Fig. 85), Pseudorphe (Warren et al. 2015), and the following species/subspecies of Perichares: P. chima, P. deceptus deceptus, P. furcata, P. lotus, and P. romeroi. Female genitalia with lamella antevaginalis comprised of a median projection covering the opening to the ostium bursae (Fig. 88–89, 92–94), except in Lycas (Fig. 90), Oenides (Fig. 91), and Perichares manu.
Distribution
Neotropical.
Key to subtribes of Pericharini Grishin, 2019
1. FW with hyaline spot in M 2 –M 3 (Figs 95–96)......................................................... Orphina
- FW without hyaline spot in M 2 –M 3 (Figs 101–102).................................................. Pericharina
description: Published as part of Suênia-Bastos, Ayane, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2025, What does the morphology tell us about it? Completing the reverse taxonomy of Pericharini Grishin, 2019 (Hesperiinae), pp. 101-117 in Zootaxa 5604 (2) on pages 104-107, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15035589