Telegonus hopfferi ( Plötz, 1881 )

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2025, Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (5), pp. 1-201 : 78

Telegonus hopfferi ( Plötz, 1881) is a species distinct from Telegonus alector (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867)

Genomic analysis reveals that Eudamus hopfferi Plötz, 1881 (type locality in Mexico, likely south-central or southern, lectotype sequenced as NVG-22068G07), currently treated as a subspecies of Telegonus alector (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) (type locality Colombia: Bogota), is genetically differentiated from it at the species level ( Fig. 61 ) with Fst /COI barcode difference of 0.32/1.7% (11 bp). Therefore, we propose that Telegonus hopfferi ( Plötz, 1881) , stat. rest. is a species distinct from Telegonus alector (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867).

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Fig. 61 (see previous 3 pages). Phylogenetic trees of Telegonus specimens analyzed in this work inferred from protein-coding regions in: a) the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 1,285,392 positions, b) the Z chromosome, based on 358,395