Pendantus K. Johnson & Kroenlein, 1993

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Changes to North American butterfly names, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 8 (2), pp. 1-12 : 4

Pendantus K. Johnson & Kroenlein, 1993 is a valid genus

Previously placed in the genus Electrostrymon Clench, 1961 (type species Papilio endymion Fabricius, 1775 ), Thecla guzanta Schaus, 1902 is not monophyletic with it and instead is sister to Calycopis Scudder, 1876 (type species Rusticus poeas Hübner, [1811], which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia cecrops Fabricius , 1793) ( Fig. 5 ). Not willing to place guzanta in Calycopis due to genetic and morphological divergence of about the same magnitude as that between Electrostrymon and Kisutam K. Johnson, 1993 ( Thecla syllis Godman & Salvin, 1887 ), we resurrect from synonymy the genus Pendantus K. Johnson & Kroenlein, 1993 (type species Thecla plusios Godman & Salvin 1887 , currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of Tmolus denarius Butler & H. Druce, 1872) and form new or revised combinations: Pendantus guzanta , Pendantus thurman (Thompson & Robbins, 2016) , Pendantus denarius (A. Butler & H. Druce, 1872) , and Pendantus perisus (H. Druce, 1907) .

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Fig. 5. Electrostrymon, Calycopis, and Pendantus.