Duroca caraca (O. Mielke, 1992) Zhang & Dolibaina & Cong & Shen & Song & Mielke & Casagrande & Mielke & Grishin, 2023

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 : 108

Duroca caraca (O. Mielke, 1992) , new combination

Sequencing of the holotype and allotype of Lerema caraca O. Mielke, 1992 (type locality in Brazil: Minas Gerais) ( Fig. 8 aquamarine) reveals its close relationship with Hesperia duroca Pl ̂tz, 1882 (type locality in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro), the type species of Duroca Grishin, 2019 ( Fig. 8 violet). The COI barcodes of the type specimens of these species reveal 5.4% (36 bp) difference, which is small enough even for closely related congeners, and therefore we propose Duroca caraca (O. Mielke, 1992) , comb. nov.

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FIGURE 8. Nuclear genome tree of selected Moncina: Phlebodes relatives. See Fig. 4 for notations. Some genera are labeled at their clades. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Cantha (purple, with species transferred from Phlebodes labeled in dark green), Duroca (violet, with Duroca caraca, comb. nov. and Duroca lenta, stat. nov. labeled in aquamarine and brown, respectively). 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.