Arotis Mabille, 1904

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 : 43

Arotis Mabille, 1904 is a junior subjective synonym of Mnaseas Godman, 1901

A clade of species currently placed in Mnaseas Godman, 1901 (type species Thymelicus bicolor Mabille, 1889 ) originates deeply within Arotis Mabille, 1904 (type species Arotis sirene Mabille, 1904 ), rendering it paraphyletic ( Fig. 11 ). To restore the monophyly, instead of defining several new genera or subgenera, and due to genetic similarity among these species, we propose to treat Arotis Mabille, 1904 is a junior subjective synonym of Mnaseas Godman, 1901 . These two genera combined form a reasonably prominent clade sister to a genetically prominent genus Euphyes Scudder, 1872 (type species Hesperia metacomet Harris, 1862 , currently a subspecies of Hesperia ? vestris Boisduval, 1852 ) ( Fig. 11 ), and we refrain from merging it into the latter genus, even as a subgenus.

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Figure 11. Genomic tree of Hesperiina and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.