Limochores catahorma (Dyar, 1916)

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Limochores catahorma (Dyar, 1916) is a valid species

Evans (1955) synonymized Amblyscirtes catahorma Dyar,1916 (type locality Mexico: Guerrero) with Hesperia pupillus Plötz, 1882 (type locality not given). However, the lectotype of Limochores pupillus designated above (NVG-18052A04) is in a clade distinct from the clade with the holotype of A. catahorma ( Fig. 11 ). Their COI barcodes differ by 4% (26 bp). Moreover, L. pupillus is a senior objective synonym of Pamphila puxillius Mabille, 1891 (type locality Mexico), because the lectotype of the former is the holotype of the latter. Therefore, Limochores catahorma (Dyar, 1916) is a valid species, not a synonym of L. pupillus or P. puxillius . In other words, Evans misidentified L. pupillus considering it a species distinct from P. puxillius , and the name for the species that Evans called “ Poanopsis pupillus ” is A. catahorma . Notably, Draudt (1923a), applied the three names correctly, in agreement with our analysis, i.e., L. pupillus as a synonym of P. puxillius (although with a questionmark), with A. catahorma being a separate species. We recently argued for placing these species in the genus Limochores Scud- der, 1872 (type species Hesperia manataaqua Scudder, 1864 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Hesperia origenes Fabricius, 1793 ) ( Zhang et al. 2019d; Zhang et al. 2021).

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Figure 11. Genomic tree of Hesperiina and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.