Cymaenes macintyrei Hayward, 1939

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 : 107

Cymaenes macintyrei Hayward, 1939 , reinstated status

Placed by Evans (1955) as a subspecies of Cymaenes tripunctata (Latreille, [1824]) (type locality in Brazil), Lerodea macintyrei Hayward, 1939 (type locality Ecuador: Balzapamba) ( Fig. 7 lilac) was kept at this status, until using genomic sequencing we found that it is sister to Cymaenes chapa O. Mielke, 1968 (type locality in Brazil: Distrito Federal) and is more distant from C. tripunctata ( Fig. 7 ). Moreover, the COI barcodes of L. macintyrei and C. tripunctata differ by 6.1% (40 bp). Therefore, we reinstate a species-level status for Cymaenes macintyrei Hayward, 1939 , stat. rest.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Nuclear genome tree of selected Moncina: Lerema relatives. See Fig. 4 for notations. Some genera are labeled at their clades. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Rectava (red, with Rectava cascatona, comb. nov. labeled in magenta), Lurida (lime, with Lurida zama, comb. nov. labeled in orange), Corra (cyan, with Corra xanthus, comb. nov. and former subspecies of Corra coryna labeled in purple and darker cyan, respectively), Vidius (blue, with species transferred from Cobalopsis labeled in dark blue), Cymaenes (green, with species transferred from Vidius or Nastra and Cymaenes macintyrei, stat. rest. labeled in olive and lilac), and Vehilius (gray, with species transferred from Vidius, Nastra, or Cymaenes labeled in pink). Green arrows point from the clade of the genus where a species was previous placed to the clade of the species that is being transferred between genera.