Ocybadistes hypomeloma, Lower, 1911

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2024, New taxa of butterflies supported by genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (3), pp. 1-63 : 41

Ocybadistes hypomeloma Lower, 1911 belongs to the genus Potanthus Scudder, 1872 and not Ocybadistes Heron, 1894

Genomic analysis reveals that Ocybadistes hypomeloma Lower, 1911 (type locality in Australia: Sydney, the sequenced specimen shown in Fig. 45a) since its description placed in Ocybadistes Heron, 1894 (type species Ocybadistes walkeri Heron, 1894 ) is not monophyletic with it and instead originates within Potanthus Scudder, 1872 (type species Hesperia omaha Edwards, 1863 ) that includes Suniana Evans, 1934 (type species Pamphila lascivia Rosenstock, 1885 ) as a subgenus, see above ( Fig. 44). Therefore, we propose that O. hypomeloma belongs to the genus Potanthus Scudder, 1872 and not Ocybadistes Heron, 1894 , as Potanthus hypomeloma (Lower, 1911), comb. nov. Potanthus hypomeloma is confidently placed as sister to sequenced specimens of the subgenus Potanthus in the Z chromosome tree ( Fig. 44b), is a confident sister to the subgenus Suniana in the mitochondrial genome tree ( Fig. 44c), and its affinity within the genus Potanthus is not strongly supported in the autosome tree ( Fig. 44a). Therefore, P. hypomeloma is from a lineage equivalent to the subgenera Potanthus and Suniana , hence representing a separate subgenus, which is new, because there are no available genus-group names associated with it.