Emesis tenedia, tenedia C. Felder and R. Felder, 1861

Grishin, Jing Zhang Qian Cong Jinhui Shen Leina Song Nick V., 2024, Genomic analysis reveals hidden species diversity in Emesis Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae), Insecta Mundi 2024 (82), pp. 1-48 : 16

Emesis tenedia ab. fasciata E. Strand, 1916 is a synonym of Emesis (Tenedia) tenedia C. Felder and R. Felder, 1861 , not Emesis (Tenedia) lupina Godman and Salvin, 1886

An infrasubspecific name Emesis tenedia ab. fasciata E. Strand, 1916 proposed for specimen(s) from Costa Rica is currently placed in synonymy with Emesis (Tenedia) lupina Godman and Salvin, 1886 (type locality in Costa Rica) ( Callaghan and Lamas 2004). Genomic sequencing of a female labeled as a “ type ” (formally, infrasubspecific names do not have type specimens) of E. tenedia ab. fasciata (NVG-18052G11) reveals that it is a specimen of Emesis (Tenedia) tenedia C. Felder and R. Felder, 1861 ( Fig. 3 ), consistently with its phenotype (a prominent postdiscal pale band in the anterior half of forewing). Images of this specimen are shown on the Butterflies of America website ( Warren et al. 2024). Therefore, we return Emesis tenedia ab. fasciata E. Strand, 1916 in synonymy with Emesis tenedia C. Felder and R. Felder, 1861 , as originally proposed.

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Figure 3. Phylogenetic trees of Emesis (Tenedia) species inferred from protein-coding regions in a) the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 5,436,138 positions, b) the Z chromosome, based on 202,944 positions, andc) the mitochondrial genome: E. angularis (brown), E. subangularis sp. n. (green), E. leona sp. n. (magenta), E. tenedia (olive), E. nimia sp. n. (orange), E. faria sp. n. (aquamarine), E. tristis stat. rest. (gray), E. lupina (cyan), E. paphia stat. rest. (pink), E. cypria (blue), E. flecta sp. n. (purple), and E. alisada sp. n. (red). See Fig. 1 caption for other notations.