Shijimia potanini Alphéraky, 1889

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Shijimia Matsumura, 1919 is confirmed as a valid genus with Shijimia potanini Alphéraky, 1889 , new combination

Genomic sequencing and analysis of representatives of the subtribe Everina Tutt, 1907 (type genus Everes Hübner, [1819] )) reveals that Shijimia Matsumura, 1919 (type species Lycaena moorei Leech, 1889 ) may not be monophyletic with Cupido Schrank, 1801 (type species Papilio minimus Fuessly, 1775 ) and instead may be sister to Bothrinia Chapman, 1909 (type species Cyaniris chennellii de Nicéville, [1884] ) (Fig.

24), confirming that it is meaningful to treat Shijimia as a valid genus. We sequenced one of the two syntypes of

Everes umbriel Doherty, 1889 (type locality Tenasserim

Valley) currently treated as a junior subjective synonym

(or subspecies) of Lycaena potanini Alphéraky, 1889

(type locality in China: Gansu Province) in the genus

Tongeia Tutt, 1908 (type species Lycaena fischeri Fig. 24. Nuclear genome tree (autosomes) of Everina representatives: genera Cupido (green), Shijimia (red), Eversmann, 1843), and found that it is not monophyletic

Bothrinia (violet), and Tongeia (blue).

with Tongeia fischeri , but is closely related to Shijimia

Matsumura, 1919 (type species Lycaena moorei Leech, 1889 ) (Fig. 24). Therefore, we propose a new combination: Shijimia potanini (Alphéraky, 1889) , comb. nov.