Pamphila compta Butler, 1877

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Pamphila compta Butler, 1877 is the type species of Euroto Godman, 1900

Evans (1955) noted that Godman incorrectly synonymized Pamphila geisa Möschler, 1879 (type locality Colombia) with Pamphila compta Butler, 1877 (type locality Brazil: Para). ( Godman and Salvin 1900a); the latter selected as the type species of Euroto Godman, 1900 . Judging from Godman’s text, he considered all Euroto Godman, 1900 with well-defined hyaline spots on forewings to be P. compta . This concept included both better-patterned specimens of P. compta , and also P. geisa . Among other species Godman placed in Euroto , E. micythus Godman, 1900 (type locality Mexico: Guerrero and Tabasco and Costa Rica), is a close relative of the true P. compta ( Fig. 14 ), and shares similar genitalia, but lacks hyaline spots. Godman’s description of the genus applies to all these species. Since Evans (1955), Euroto has been treated as a junior subjective synonym of Morys Godman, 1900 (type species Morys valda Evans, 1955 ), and P. compta is known as its type species. To preserve this treatment, and acknowledging that Godman considered P. compta and P. geisa to be conspecific (i.e., he partly misidentified P. compta and even illustrated P. geisa as P. compta ), under Article 70.3.1. of the ICZN Code we fix the type species of Euroto as Pamphila compta Butler, 1877 , i.e., the nominal species previously cited as the type species, which is the default choice, and not Pamphila geisa Möschler, 1879 that was additionally included in Godman’s concept of P. compta .

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Figure 14. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 2. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.