Ochlodes Scudder, 1872

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 : 166

The genus Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 consists of four subgenera

Inspection of the genomic phylogeny of Hesperiina reveals that the genus Ochlodes Scudder, 1872 (type species Hesperia nemorum Boisduval, 1852 , currently regarded as a subspecies of Hesperia agricola Boisduval, 1852 ) experienced deep radiation ( Fig. 131 ) and consists of four major clades. We define these clades as subgenera, three of which do not have available names and, therefore, are new, described below.

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Fig. 131. Phylogenetic trees of Ochlodes inferred from protein-coding regions in: a) the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 13,712,217 positions, and b) the mitochondrial genome. Different subgenera are shown in different colors: Ochloba subgen. n. (red). Ochlata subgen. n. (purple), Ochluma subgen. n. (blue), and Ochlodes (green) and labeled above corresponding branches in the nuclear genome tree. Type species of subgenera are labeled in magenta.