Semalea corvinus (Mabille, 1890)

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (3), pp. 1-94 : 75

Semalea corvinus (Mabille, 1890) is a species distinct from Semalea sextilis (Plötz, 1886)

Genomic sequencing of Cobalus corvinus Mabille, 1890 ( type locality in Sierra Leone, type sequenced as NVG-18075A05) currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of Semalea sextilis (Plötz, 1886) ( type locality in Ghana) reveals that it is not monophyletic with it and instead originates deep in the radiation of Semalea Holland, 1896 ( type species Hesperia pulvina Plötz, 1879 ) ( Figs. 45, 46). Therefore, we reinstate Semalea corvinus (Mabille, 1890) , stat. rest. as a species-level taxon.