Deudorix batikelides W. Holland, 1920

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 : 33

Deudorix batikelides W. Holland, 1920 belongs to

the genus Pilodeudorix H. H. Druce, 1891

Genomic phylogeny places the allotype of Deudorix batikelides W. Holland, 1920 (type locality in Congo, NVG-20127G06) ( Fig. 24 labeled in orange) in the same clade with Pilodeudorix H. H. Druce, 1891 (type species Pilodeudorix barbatus H. H. Druce, 1891 , which is regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Sithon camerona Plötz, 1880 ) ( Fig. 24 cyan) and away from Deudorix Hewitson, 1863 (type species Dipsas epijarbas F. Moore, 1858 ) ( Fig. 24 blue). While we were unable to find the holotype of D. batikelides , we use the allotype to represent this species and transfer D. batikelides from Deudorix to Pilodeudorix , forming Pilodeudorix batikelides (W. Holland, 1920), comb. nov.

Figures

Fig. 24. Phylogenetic trees of selected Lycaenidae species constructed from protein-coding regions in: a) the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 447,723 positions, and b) the mitochondrial genome; and c) a BioNJ (Gascuel 1997) dendrogram constructed from COI barcodes using the phylogeny.fr server (Dereeper et al. 2008). Different genera are colored differently: Ajenorix gen. n. (red), Bindahara (gray), Artipe (olive), Virachola stat. rest. (green with subgenus Crates subgen. n. in brown), Capys (purple with subgenus Afrix subgen. n. in magenta), Deudorix (blue with subgenus Wacus subgen. n. in dark blue), and Pilodeudorix (cyan with Pilodeudorix batikelides comb. nov. labeled in orange). Ultrafast bootstrap (Minh et al. 2013) values are shown in (a) and (b), and regular bootstrap values (as fractions) from 100 replicates are shown in (c). In the COI barcode dendrogram (c), species are added from the BOLD database (Ratnasingham and Hebert 2007) (identification not checked) and their BOLD Sample ID (not equal to 8 symbols) or GenBank accession (8 symbols starting from a letter) are given. Sequences obtained by us are denoted by the sample ID of 8 symbols starting from a number. Gaps in branches indicate where a vertical slice of the tree was removed to reduce its horizontal dimension (to allow an increase in the font size), i.e., branches with gaps are longer than shown.