Saliana vixen Evans, 1955

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 97

Saliana vixen Evans, 1955 is a junior subjective synonym of Neoxeniades parna ( Evans, 1955)

Inspection of the holotype Saliana vixen Evans, 1955 (type locality French Guiana) in BMNH reveals that it is similar to females of a Costa Rican species recorded in Janzen and Hallwachs database (2021) as “ Neoxeniades Burns 04”, which is closely related to Neoxeniades parna ( Evans, 1955) (type locality Brazil: Para) ( Fig. 17 ), suggesting that it is not Calpodes Hübner, [1819] (type species Papilio ethlius Stoll, 1782 ), which now includes Saliana Evans, 1955 (type species Papilio salius Cramer, 1775 ) ( Zhang et al. 2019d), but a female of N. parna . Notably, the S. vixen holotype has no hyaline spot in forewing cell M 2 -M 3 characteristic of Calpodes and has extensive bright emerald-green overscaling on the body above absent in Calpodes species. The names parna and vixen were published in the same work issued on the same date ( Evans 1955), and here we give priority to the name parna . Therefore, we suggest that Saliana vixen ( Evans, 1955) is a junior subjective synonym of Neoxeniades parna ( Evans, 1955) .

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Figure 17. Genomic tree of Carystina, Pericharini, Megathymini and relatives. Clades corresponding to new subtribes described in this work are highlighted in green. See Fig. 1 legend for other notations.