Chrysoritis mithras (Pringle, 1995) Heath, 2023
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https://doi.org/ 10.4314/met.v34i1.02 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/744C87AA-E74B-D748-FCC3-26AF7EEAFA5D |
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Felipe |
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Chrysoritis mithras |
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mithras Pringle 1995: 107 View in CoL . Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Brenton-on-Sea, Nr. Knysna. Paratypes from near Still Bay. MPT: hilltops and prominences in coastal terrain. Host ant: Crem. peringueyi .
Taxonomy: This is the only taxon in the thysbe clade supported by EF (95% support for the two samples) in addition to COI (95%). The two CAD sequences of C. mithras are identical but also shared with two other samples. The two sister clades of C. mithras in the COI tree (explained below) are represented in the EF and CAD trees. The population from the type locality at Brenton, formerly treated as C. thysbe mithras , is here revised back to C. mithras stat. rev. Conservation status: CR.
The western population from Mossel Bay to Cape Agulhas, (n = 5) formerly C. thysbe thysbe , is provisionally treated here as an undescribed subspecies of C. mithras but more thorough investigation is needed; its conservation status has not been assessed. This western population of C. mithras is morphologically and ecologically similar to C. thysbe thysbe . It is separated from the Brenton ‘type’ population (n = 2) by 12 mutational steps in the network and their wing facies differ minimally. The COI tree places samples from Mossel Bay, Gourits River Mouth, Still Bay, Witsand and Cape Agulhas, previously assigned to C. thysbe thysbe , as sister to the Brenton population and not associated with C. thysbe phylogenetically. Material from Pearly Beach westwards to the Cape Peninsula remains C. t. thysbe . The distance from Cape Agulhas to Pearly Beach (~ 50 km) has not yet been adequately searched to assess the allopatric gap between C. t. thysbe and C. mithras .
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