Telegonus, Hubner, 1819

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2025, Update to: Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (6), pp. 1-36 : 14-15

A modified preliminary taxonomic list of Telegonus (Rhabdoides Scudder, 1889) species from the clade analyzed in Zhang et al. (2025) and this work

Additional genomic sequencing and analyses suggest several revisions to our preliminary taxonomic list of species from the subgenus Rhabdoides Scudder, 1889 (only from the clade we have analyzed). The list from Zhang et al. (2025a) is updated below, using the same rationale and format. We introduced a new species and a new subspecies and revised the status of one subspecies to species. Furthermore, tweaks to the order were made. For instance, Telegonus chuchuvianus Grishin, 2025 was moved next to its most likely sister group of two species: Telegonus meretrix (Hewitson, 1876) and Telegonus fulvimargo Grishin, 2025 , as evidenced by strong statistical support in both the Z chromosome and the mitochondrial genome trees ( Fig. 10 ). The former species was placed before the latter two, because it lacks the yellower ventral hindwing margin characteristic of the latter, and the next species group in the list (the latimargo species group) starts with pale-margined species.

In the following arrangement from Zhang et al. (2025a), refined below, species of Rhabdoides excluding the clades with Telegonus anaphus (Cramer, 1777) and Telegonus cellus (Boisduval & Le Conte, [1837] are given. The list also includes species discovered by Steinhauser (1987) (“four new species will be added to the group”) that fall within these species groups but remain unpublished, shown in gray font. Type localities (general area only: state, region, department, or county) are in gray font. New taxa described in this study and the category of taxonomic change are in red font. Taxonomic treatment before this work (for valid names) and comments are given in smaller font following a vertical bar | after the type locality; an equal sign = precedes synonyms given in their original genus combination; and a double dagger ‡ marks unavailable names. The list covers 48 valid taxa and 4 yet undescribed species, comprising 46 species (1 newly proposed here and 1 formerly treated as a subspecies) and 6 additional subspecies (1 new).

Figures

Fig. 10. Phylogenetic trees of Telegonus (Rhabdoides) species from the parmenides group constructed from protein-coding regions in: a) the Z chromosome, based on 267,339 positions, and b) the mitochondrial genome. Different species are colored differently: T. parmenides (olive), T. panamus (purple), T. tatus (maroon), T. cretatus (blue), T. adoba stat. nov. (green), T. chuchuvianus (magenta), T. meretrix (orange), and T. fulvimargo (cyan). Gaps in terminal branches indicate that a segment of a branch was cut out to reduce its length (to allow an increase in the font size), i.e., a branch with a gap is longer than shown.