Panoquina confusa O. Mielke, 1968

Zhang, Jing, Dolibaina, Diego R., Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina, Mielke, Carlos G. C., Casagrande, Mirna M., Mielke, Olaf H. H. & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Taxonomic notes on Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5271 (1), pp. 91-114 : 112

Panoquina confusa O. Mielke, 1968 confirmed as a junior subjective synonym of Panoquina trix Evans, 1955

Panoquina confusa O. Mielke, 1968 (type locality in Brazil: Minas Gerais) has been placed as a junior subjective synonym of Panoquina trix Evans, 1955 (type locality in Brazil: Mato Grosso) by Mielke (2004). Genomic sequencing of the holotype of P. confusa ( Fig. 10 magena) reveals that in both nuclear and mitochondrial genome trees it is located among specimens of P. trix ( Fig. 10 cyan) including topotypes, thus confirming this synonymy.

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FIGURE 10. Panoquina trees constructed from protein-coding regions in: a. nuclear genome, b. mitochondrial genome. Specimens are arranged in the same order in both trees and complete labels are given in panel a only. P. panoquinoides (blue), P. errans (olive), P. calna, stat. nov. (orange), P. eugeon eugeon, stat. rest. (purple), P. eugeon minima, comb. nov. (maroon), P. albistriga, stat. nov. (green), P. trix (cyan with its synonym P. confusa in magenta).