Limochores Scudder, 1872

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 : 9

Limochores Scudder, 1872 is a valid genus

Sister to the rest of Polites + Wallengrenia excluding Hedone , Limochores Scudder, 1872 ( type species Hesperia manataaqua Scudder, 1863 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia origenes Fabricius, 1793 ) was treated as a junior subjective synonym of Polites ( Fig. 14 ). For the reasons given above for Hedone , we propose the following new or revised combinations: Limochores origenes (Fabricius, 1793) , Limochores mystic (W. H. Edwards, 1863) , Limochores sonora (Scudder, 1872) , Limochores puxillius (Mabille, 1891) , and Limochores pupillus (Plötz, 1882) . Interestingly, two difficultto-distinguish species that frequently fly together at the same location, L. origenes and Polites themistocles (Latreille, [1824]) , ended up in different genera. Even though their genitalia are similar, they belong to distant from each other clades in the tree ( Fig. 14 ): P. themistocles is closely related to P. peckius , the type genus of Polites , while L. origenes is closer to L. mystic .

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Fig. 14. Polites, Wallengrenia, Hedone, and Limochores.