Epargyreus huachuca Dixon, 1955

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2020, Genomic evidence suggests further changes of butterfly names, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 8 (7), pp. 1-41 : 29-30

publication ID

9A8DCBC8-A9D5-4083-B640-BA5101827478

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9A8DCBC8-A9D5-4083-B640-BA5101827478

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/20298794-FF8A-FFBC-FE7D-72196A0293CC

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Epargyreus huachuca Dixon, 1955
status

 

Epargyreus huachuca Dixon, 1955 View in CoL is a species distinct from Epargyreus clarus (Cramer, 1775)

Nisoniades bromias (Godman & Salvin, 1894) is a species distinct from Nisoniades rubescens (Möschler, 1877)

difference in COI barcode, which by itself is not large enough to draw definitive conclusions, but it prompted further investigation. The Fst/Gmin statistics computed on two pairs of specimens from distant localities ( Fig. 27) were 0.27/0.05, suggesting that Nisoniades bromias (Godman & Salvin, 1894) , reinstated status, is a distinct species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Epargyreus

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