Clytius shola ( Evans, 1953 ) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 28

Clytius shola ( Evans, 1953) , new combination

Staphylus shola Evans, 1953 (type locality unknown, sequenced specimen is from Venezuela) is not monophyletic with Staphylus Godman and Salvin, 1896 (type species Helias ascalaphus Staudinger, 1876 ), and instead is sister to Clytius clytius (Godman and Salvin, 1897) ( Fig. 5 ). Male genitalia of the two species share similarly convex costa and bulging ampulla, but a triangular harpe is more extended caudad in S. shola . Thus, it is placed in the genus Clytius Grishin, 2019 (type species Pholisora clytius Godman and Salvin, 1897 ) as Clytius shola ( Evans, 1953) , new combination.

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Figure 5. Genomic tree of Carcharodini and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.