Epargyreus gaumeri Godman and Salvin, 1893

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Epargyreus gaumeri Godman and Salvin, 1893 , reinstated status, is a species distinct from Epargyreus clavicornis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) , and Epargyreus gaumeri tenda Evans, 1955 ,

new combination, as its subspecies

The two taxa: Epargyreus gaumeri Godman and Salvin, 1893 (type locality Honduras: Roatán Island) and Epargyreus clavicornis tenda Evans, 1955 (type locality in Colombia) that Evans (1952) regarded as subspecies of Epargyreus clavicornis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) (type locality from USA to Tropical America, probably in Venezuela) are not conspecific with the syntypes of E. clavicornis , ( Fig. 24 cyan and orange). In the absence of other available names, we reinstate Epargyreus gaumeri Godman and Salvin, 1893 as a species and, following Evans (1955), keep E. clavicornis tenda conspecific with it, but as its subspecies Epargyreus gaumeri tenda Evans, 1955 , new combination.

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Figure 24. Trees of Epargyreus constructed from protein-coding regions in a) nuclear and b) mitochondrial genomes: E. fractigutta sp. n. (red), E. cruza (blue), E. gaumeri (cyan), E. clavicornis (orange), E. clarus with E. huachuca (green), and E. zestos (purple) among their relatives (black). Primary type specimens are labeled in magenta. See Fig. 1 legend for other notations.