Turmada Evans, 1955

Cong, Qian, Zhang, Jing, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 731 (731), pp. 1-56 : 25

Turmada Evans, 1955 is a synonym of Neoxeniades Hayward, 1938

Turmada originates within Neoxeniades ( Fig. 10 ), and genetic distance between the type species of these genera is small (COI barcode difference 5.5%, and differences as much as 10% are frequent between congeners). Therefore, Turmada is designated a new junior subjective synonym of Neoxeniades .

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