Eurypterus later Mabille, 1891

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Genomics-based taxonomic rearrangement of Achlyodini and Carcharodini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae), Insecta Mundi 2023 (16), pp. 1-33 : 14

Eurypterus later Mabille, 1891 and Eurypterus haber Mabille, 1891 belong to the genus Eantis Boisduval, 1836 , not Aethilla Hewitson, 1868

Eurypterus later Mabille, 1891 (type locality likely in Peru) and Eurypterus haber Mabille, 1891 (type locality probably in Peru) are currently in the genus Aethilla Hewitson, 1868 (type species Aethilla eleusinia Hewitson, 1868 ), because of their general appearance and visual similarities with Aethilla . However, the genomic tree reveals that they are not monophyletic with Aethilla , which is sister to Achlyodes Hübner, 1819 (type species Papilio busirus Cramer, 1779 ), but instead originate within Eantis Boisduval, 1836 (type species Urbanus thraso Hübner, 1807 ) ( Fig. 3 ). Therefore, we transfer them from Aethilla to Eantis forming new combinations: Eantis later (Mabille, 1891) and Eantis haber (Mabille, 1891) .

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Figure 3. The nuclear genome-based phylogeny of Achlyodini (continued from Fig. 1). A segment corresponding to the subtribe Achlyodinia is shown. The top segment of the tree (subtribe Pythonidina) is replaced with four dots and is shown in Fig. 1. See Fig. 1 for notations. The names of taxa that before this work were placed in the genus Aethilla are shown in orange to illustrate the lack of monophyly.