Thisbe Hübner, [1819]

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Thisbe Hübner, [1819] is a subgenus of Lemonias Hübner, [1807]

Currently treated as a genus, Thisbe Hübner, 1819 ( type species Papilio belise Stoll, 1782 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Papilio irenea Stoll, 1780 ) is genetically differentiated from Lemonias Hübner, [1807] ( type species Lemonias zygia Hübner, 1807 ) at the subgenus level ( Fig. 23 cyan); e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 8.4% (55 bp). Therefore, we propose that Thisbe Hübner, 1819 stat. nov. is a subgenus of Lemonias Hübner, [1807] . Moreover, we find that Thisbe , as currently circumscribed, is not monophyletic ( Fig. 23 red and cyan labeled in bright purple), and some species included in Thisbe belong to distinct genera, as elaborated upon in the next section.

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Fig. 23. Phylogenetic trees of selected Nymphidiini constructed from protein-coding regions in the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 4,956,768 positions. Different genera are colored differently, and different subgenera are labeled in different colors: Parvospila (brown with subgenus Lucispila subgen. n. labeled in magenta), Zelotaea (green with subgenus Byzia subgen. n. labeled in pink), Aricoris (purple with subgenera Arichlosyne subgen. n. and Ariconias stat. nov. labeled in orange and gray, respectively), Lemonias (cyan with subgenus Thisbe stat. nov. labeled in bright purple), Uraneis stat. nov. (red), and Pachythone (blue with subgenera Pixus Callaghan, 1982, Lamphiotes Callaghan, 1982, Lenca subgen. n., and Pseudonymphidia stat. nov. labeled in maroon, dark blue, aquamarine, and olive, respectively). Ultrafast bootstrap (Minh et al. 2013) values are shown at nodes.