Vehilius spitzi (O. Mielke, 1967), 2023

Zhang, Jing, Dolibaina, Diego R., Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina, Mielke, Carlos G. C., Casagrande, Mirna M., Mielke, Olaf H. H. & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Taxonomic notes on Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5271 (1), pp. 91-114 : 108

Vehilius spitzi (O. Mielke, 1967) , Vehilius tanta ( Evans, 1955) , Vehilius campestris (O. Mielke, 1980) , and Vehilius tinta ( Evans, 1955) , new combinations

Vidius spitzi O. Mielke, 1967 and Vidius tinta Evans, 1955 (type locality for the two in Brazil: Goiás), Nastra tanta Evans, 1955 (type locality in Brazil: Mato Grosso), and Cymaenes campestris O. Mielke, 1980 (type locality in Brazil: Paraná) ( Fig. 7 pink) originate within the species of Vehilius Godman, 1900 (type species Cobalus illudens Mabille, 1891 , currently a subspecies of Pamphila stictomenes Butler, 1877 ) ( Fig. 7 gray) as evidenced by the nuclear genome tree. Typical COI barcode differences among these species are around 3%–5%: e.g., V. spitzi differs from N. tanta by 3% (20 bp) and C. campestris differs from V. tinta by 4.7% (31 bp), with the largest difference being between V. stictomenes illudens and C. campestris : 8.1% (53 bp). Therefore, we place all these species in the same genus as Vehilius spitzi (O. Mielke, 1967) , comb. nov., Vehilius tanta ( Evans, 1955) , comb. nov., Vehilius campestris (O. Mielke, 1980) , comb. nov., and Vehilius tinta ( Evans, 1955) , comb. nov.