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Type species. Leona lissa Evans, 1937.
Definition. A genus more related to Gamia Holland, 1896 ( type species Proteides galua Holland, 1891) and Artitropa Holland, 1896 ( type species Pamphila erynnis Trimen, 1862) than to Leona Evans, 1937 ( type species Hesperia leonora Plötz, 1879) ( Fig. 9). Keys to VIII.59.C(b) in Evans (1937) and differs from its relatives, including Leona, by a well-defined gnathos reaching about half of uncus length (in lateral view); tegumen plus uncus twice as long as wide, hour-glass shaped in ventral view; uncus divided, arms short and stout, knob-like; valva with harpe close to rectangular; hindwing with a postdiscal band of spots above. In DNA, a combination of the following base pairs is diagnostic: aly127.66.15: T199 A, aly 1149.1.1:A1727G, aly822.30.12:A417C, aly490.3.1:A60A (not G), aly6339.4.1:G167G (not T), aly 1121.3.2:C344C (not T).
Etymology. The name is a feminine noun in the nominative singular, formed from the type species name.
Species included. The type species and Plastingia luehderi Plötz, 1879.
Parent taxon. Tribe Astictopterini Swinhoe, 1912.