Pemara Eliot, 1978

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 39

Pemara Eliot, 1978 is a junior subjective synonym of Oerane Elwes and Edwards, 1897

Two currently monotypic genera Pemara Eliot, 1978 (type and the only species Parnara pugnans de Nicéville, 1891 ) and Oerane Elwes and Edwards, 1897 (type species Notocrypta neaera de Nicéville, 1891 , currently a subspecies of Plesioneura microthyrus Mabille, 1883 ) are sisters, closer to each other than the two species of Suastus Moore, [1881] to each other ( Fig. 8 ). COI barcodes of Pemara pugnans and Oerane microthyrus differ by 7.1% (47 bp). For these reasons, moving towards simpler classification, we unite the two monotypic genera into one and suggest that Pemara Eliot, 1978 is a junior subjective synonym of Oerane Elwes and Edwards, 1897 .

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Figure 8. Genomic tree of Heteropterinae Aurivillius, 1925, some Old World Hesperiinae and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.