Molo pelta ( Evans, 1955 ) Cong & Zhang & Shen & Grishin, 2019

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731 (731), pp. 1-56 : 36

Molo pelta ( Evans, 1955) , new combination

To add to the Lychnuchus surprise, we transfer another mimic, Lychnuchus pelta Evans, 1955 , to Molo Godman, [1900] (type species Hesperia heraea Hewitson, 1868 , considered to be a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia mango Guenée, 1865 ), because it is not in the same clade as Lychnuchus celsus (the type species of Lychnuchus ) but instead is closely related to Molo mango (COI barcode difference only 2.7%, indicating congeneric relationship). Therefore, we form the new combination Molo pelta ( Fig. 10–12 ).

Figures

Figure 10. Genomic trees of Erionotini, Carystina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.

Figure 11. Nuclear genome and Z chromosome trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.

Figure 12. Mitochondrial genome and COI barcode trees of Moncina and relatives. See Fig. 2 legend for notations.