Alera Mabille, 1891

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731 (731), pp. 1-56 : 40

Alera Mabille, 1891 is a synonym of Perichares Scudder, 1872

We find ( Fig. 13 ) that Alera furcata Mabille, 1891 and Perichares philetes (Gmelin, [1790]) , the type species of both genera (technically, Papilio coridon Fabricius, 1775 , a homonym, considered to refer to Perichares philetes , is the type species of Perichares ) are genetically close (COI barcodes differ by about 6.5%). Moreover, several species of Alera that we sequenced are not monophyletic and are interspersed between species of Perichares . For these reasons, we consider Alera to be a subjective junior synonym of Perichares .

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Figure 13. Genomic trees of Hesperiina, Pericharini and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.