Jemadia pseudognetus imitator (Mabille, 1891) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Orellana & Brockmann & Mielke & Mielke & Costa & Grishin, 2023

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina, Orellana, Andrés, Brockmann, Ernst, Mielke, Carlos G. C., Mielke, Olaf H. H., Costa, Mauro & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Lessons from the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) holotypes in the MIZA collection (Maracay, Venezuela), Zootaxa 5319 (4), pp. 573-581 : 577

Jemadia pseudognetus imitator (Mabille, 1891) , comb. nov.

Confirming the hypothesis of Mielke, Brockmann, and Mielke (2022), we find that genomic trees place Jemadia hospita imitator (Mabille, 1891) (type locality Colombia: Bogota, lectotype NVG-15029A01 sequenced) with Jemadia pseudognetus (Mabille, 1878) (type locality in Colombia) and away from Jemadia hospita hospita (Butler, 1877) (type locality in Peru) ( Fig. 1 ). We see that J. pseudognetus and J. hospita form separate clades, well differentiated genetically. Their COI barcodes differ by 2.3% (15 bp) and we confirm them as two distinct species. However, within each clade, there is only limited genetic differentiation. For instance, J. h. imitator is not separated from the nominotypical J. pseudognetus in both trees ( Fig. 1 ). Therefore, because there are wing pattern differences between these two taxa, we propose to treat the former as a subspecies of the latter and form new species-subspecies combination Jemadia pseudognetus imitator (Mabille, 1891) , comb. nov. As a result, J. hospita becomes monotypic, and J. pseudognetus is comprised of two subspecies.

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FIGURE 1. Phylogenetic trees of selected Pyrrhopyginae species constructed from protein-coding regions in a) Z chromosome and b) mitochondrial genome: Amenis pionia (gray), Amenis pedro stat. nov. (dark blue), Amenis picia (maroon), Amenis ponina (green), Jemadia pseudognetus (blue), Jemadia hospita (purple), Jemadia demarmelsi (orange), Jemasonia pater (cyan), Jemasonia albescens (red), Jemasonia hewitsonii (oilve), and Jemasonia sosia stat. rest. (aquamarine) The holotypes of species proposed by Orellana ([2010]) are labeled in magenta and highlighted in yellow. Statistical support values are shown at nodes. For each specimen, the name adopted in this work is given first, with comments or previously used name listed in square brackets (if different), supplemented with the DNA sample number, type status (see Materials and Methods for abbreviations) general locality and year it was collected (old means around and prior to the beginning of the 20th century, exact year not specified). See NCBI database entries in the bioproject PRJNA986225 for additional data about these specimens. Synonyms are given in parentheses preceded by “=”. The type status refers to this synonym, if the synonym name is provided.