Pendantus K. Johnson & Kroenlein, 1993

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Changes to North American butterfly names, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 8 (2), pp. 1-12 : 4

Pendantus K. Johnson & Kroenlein, 1993 is a valid genus

Previously placed in the genus Electrostrymon Clench, 1961 ( type species Papilio endymion Fabricius, 1775 ), Thecla guzanta Schaus, 1902 is not monophyletic with it and instead is sister to Calycopis Scudder, 1876 ( type species Rusticus poeas Hübner, [1811], which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia cecrops Fabricius , 1793) ( Fig. 5 ). Not willing to place guzanta in Calycopis due to genetic and morphological divergence of about the same magnitude as that between Electrostrymon and Kisutam K. Johnson, 1993 ( Thecla syllis Godman & Salvin, 1887 ), we resurrect from synonymy the genus Pendantus K. Johnson & Kroenlein, 1993 ( type species Thecla plusios Godman & Salvin 1887 , currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of Tmolus denarius Butler & H. Druce, 1872) and form new or revised combinations: Pendantus guzanta , Pendantus thurman (Thompson & Robbins, 2016) , Pendantus denarius (A. Butler & H. Druce, 1872) , and Pendantus perisus (H. Druce, 1907) .

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Fig. 5. Electrostrymon, Calycopis, and Pendantus.