Vehilius spitzi (O. Mielke, 1967), 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

Vehilius spitzi (O. Mielke, 1967) , Vehilius tanta ( Evans, 1955) , Vehilius campestris (O. Mielke, 1980) , and Vehilius tinta ( Evans, 1955) , new combinations

Vidius spitzi O. Mielke, 1967 and Vidius tinta Evans, 1955 (type locality for the two in Brazil: Goiás), Nastra tanta Evans, 1955 (type locality in Brazil: Mato Grosso), and Cymaenes campestris O. Mielke, 1980 (type locality in Brazil: Paraná) ( Fig. 7 pink) originate within the species of Vehilius Godman, 1900 (type species Cobalus illudens Mabille, 1891 , currently a subspecies of Pamphila stictomenes Butler, 1877 ) ( Fig. 7 gray) as evidenced by the nuclear genome tree. Typical COI barcode differences among these species are around 3%–5%: e.g., V. spitzi differs from N. tanta by 3% (20 bp) and C. campestris differs from V. tinta by 4.7% (31 bp), with the largest difference being between V. stictomenes illudens and C. campestris : 8.1% (53 bp). Therefore, we place all these species in the same genus as Vehilius spitzi (O. Mielke, 1967) , comb. nov., Vehilius tanta ( Evans, 1955) , comb. nov., Vehilius campestris (O. Mielke, 1980) , comb. nov., and Vehilius tinta ( Evans, 1955) , comb. nov.

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.