Mnaseas inca Bell, 1930

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 : 43

Mnaseas inca Bell, 1930 , reinstated status

Placed by Evans (1955) as a subspecies of Thymelicus bicolor Mabille, 1889 ( type locality Honduras), which is the type species of Mnaseas Godman, 1901 , and kept there since, Mnaseas inca Bell, 1930 ( type locality Bolivia: Santa Cruz ) is not monophyletic with it ( Fig. 11 ), and the two taxa are only rather distantly related exhibiting COI barcode difference of 6.1% (40 bp). Therefore, it is a species-level taxon as originally proposed: Mnaseas inca Bell, 1930 , reinstated status.

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Figure 11. Genomic tree of Hesperiina and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.