Manerebia pauperata Pyrcz & Willmott, 2006

Mahecha-J, Oscar, Florczyk, Klaudia, Willmott, Keith, Cerdeña, José, Zubek, Anna, Boyer, Pierre, Farfán, Jackie, Lachowska-Cierlik, Dorota & Pyrcz, Tomasz W., 2021, Solving the cryptic diversity of the genus Manerebia Staudinger in northern Peru description of new species and considerations on the biogeographical role of the Huancabamba Deflection (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Pronophilina), Zootaxa 5072 (3), pp. 201-237 : 224-230

Manerebia pauperata Pyrcz & Willmott, 2006 , n. stat.

Manerebia satura pauperata Pyrcz & Willmott, 2006: 47 . Type locality: Km 40, road Loja – Zamora, Zamora-Chinchipe, Ecuador. Holotype male: CEPUJ [examined].

Remarks. In both BI ( Fig.12 ) and ML ( Fig. 13 ) trees M. pauperata n. stat. and M. satura situate in distant branches of the tree and cluster in highly resolved clades with other congeners. Both M. lamasi n. stat., and M. pauperata n. stat. have also been collected in sympatry in the Cordillera del Cóndor in southern Ecuador. Additionally, the two taxa also consistently differ in wing colour patterns ( Fig. 5C, D ) and male genitalia. We therefore formally recognize M. lamasi n. stat. as a distinct species. Despite an overall similar colour pattern in comparison with M. satura from central and southern Peru, with the exception of the absence of the HWV yellow median band, M. pauperata n. stat. shows some genitalic differences. Moreover, the species-delimitation methods ( Figs. 14 , 15 ) and genetic distances (Supplementary material 2) clearly support treating the two taxa as separate species.

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FIGURE 5. Adults (left—dorsum, right—venter) A. M. benigni tessmanni ♂ Ecuador, Río Troya B. M. benigni tessmanni ♀, Ecuador, Jimbura —San Andrés C. M. pauperata n. stat. ♂ Ecuador, Zamora —Chinchipe D. M. lamasi n. stat. ♂, Ecuador, Morona—Santiago

FIGURE 12. Bayesian Inference tree (BI) reconstructed from a fragment of COI mitochondrial gene. Posterior probability values indicated on nodes.

FIGURE 13. Maximum likelihood tree (ML) reconstructed from a fragment of COI mitochondrial gene. Ultrafast bootstrap support values indicated on nodes.

FIGURE 14. The Bayesian implementation of the Poisson Tree Processes (bPTP) for delimiting species based on a fragment of COI mitochondrial gene.

FIGURE 15. The generalized mixed Yule-coalescent (GMYC) for delimiting species based on a fragment of COI mitochondrial gene.