Hesperiidae Latreille, 1809

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2024, Taxonomic advances driven by the genomic analysis of butterflies, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (7), pp. 1-43 : 29

Family Hesperiidae Latreille, 1809

Genomic phylogeny of Euriphellus Austin, 2008

Four new species of Euriphellus Austin, 2008 (type species Papilio euribates Stoll, 1782 ) have been recently proposed: E. panamicus Grishin, 2023 (type locality in Panama: Panama), E. panador Grishin, 2023 (type locality in Ecuador: Esmeraldas), E. colombiensis Grishin, 2023 (type locality in Colombia: Río Dagua), and E. ecuadoricus Grishin, 2023 (type locality in Ecuador: Canelos) (Zhang et al. 2023a; Zhang et al. 2023d), but not all of them have been included together in the same phylogenetic tree. Here we show genome-based phylogeny of all known Euriphellus species ( Fig. 23). The genus partitions into two distinct clades: the E. euribates group that consists of three species: E. cebrenus (Cramer, 1777) (type locality in Suriname), E. euribates (Stoll, 1782) (type locality in Suriname), and E. polygius (Latreille, [1824]) (type locality in South Brazil, as deduced by genomic sequencing) and the E. phraxanor group that includes all other species. Euriphellus cebrenus and E. euribates could be conspecific (Zhang et al. 2022b) pending further research and possible neotype designations. We find that the three trees are incongruent in the E. phraxanor group. However, the topology of the Z chromosome tree is not strongly supported ( Fig. 23b). Most notable irregularities are in the mitochondrial genome tree ( Fig. 23c): E. panador and E. colombiensis essentially share the mitochondrial DNA, despite not being sisters in the nuclear genome, and E. lama (Evans, 1952) (type locality in Guatemala) is similar to them while being a more distant species according to the nuclear genome. Comparing the topologies of the three trees, we hypothesize that E. colombiensis and E. lama experienced mitochondrial DNA introgression from E. panador but at different time points.