Cymaenes aequatoria ( Hayward, 1940 ) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

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 : 73

Cymaenes miqua (Dyar, 1913) , reinstated status and Cymaenes aequatoria ( Hayward, 1940) , new status

Lerema miqua Dyar, 1913 (type locality Peru: San Miguel) and Lerodea aequatoria Hayward, 1940 (type locality Ecuador) placed as subspecies of Cymaenes odilia (Burmeister, 1878) (type locality Argentina) ( Mielke 2005) are not monophyletic with it, but instead are sisters to each other forming a separate clade near the base of Cymaenes Scudder, 1872 (type species Cobalus tripunctus Herrich-Schäffer, 1865 ) ( Fig. 14 ). We sequenced the holotype of L. miqua (NVG-17102E10) in the USNM and the holotype of L. aequatoria (NVG-15104C10) in AMNH. The 4.1% (27 bp) difference in their COI barcodes coupled with phenotypic differences detailed by Evans (1955) suggest that they are species-level taxa: Cymaenes miqua (Dyar, 1913) , reinstated status and Cymaenes aequatoria ( Hayward, 1940) , new status. In agreement with Mielke (2005), we leave Cymaenes odilia pacer Evans, 1955 (type locality Peru: Limbani) as a junior subjective synonym of C. miqua due to phenotypic similarities and relative geographic proximity.

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