Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002

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Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002 is a subgenus of Aricoris Westwood, 1851

Currently treated as a genus, Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002 ( type species Lemonias albinus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861) is phenotypically similar (especially in wing shape) to the subgenus Arichlosyne subgen. n. ( type species Apodemia ochracea Mengel, 1902 ) of Aricoris Westwood, 1851 ( type species Aricoris tisiphone Westwood, 1851 , which is a junior subjective synonym of Erycina tutana Godart, [1824] ), and these genus group taxa are differentiated genetically from each other at the subgenus level ( Fig. 23 purple); e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 8.5% (56 bp) ( Ariconias and Aricoris ) and 8.7% (57 bp) ( Ariconias and Arichlosyne ). Therefore, we propose that Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002 stat. nov. is a subgenus of Aricoris Westwood, 1851 .

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Fig. 23. Phylogenetic trees of selected Nymphidiini constructed from protein-coding regions in the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 4,956,768 positions. Different genera are colored differently, and different subgenera are labeled in different colors: Parvospila (brown with subgenus Lucispila subgen. n. labeled in magenta), Zelotaea (green with subgenus Byzia subgen. n. labeled in pink), Aricoris (purple with subgenera Arichlosyne subgen. n. and Ariconias stat. nov. labeled in orange and gray, respectively), Lemonias (cyan with subgenus Thisbe stat. nov. labeled in bright purple), Uraneis stat. nov. (red), and Pachythone (blue with subgenera Pixus Callaghan, 1982, Lamphiotes Callaghan, 1982, Lenca subgen. n., and Pseudonymphidia stat. nov. labeled in maroon, dark blue, aquamarine, and olive, respectively). Ultrafast bootstrap (Minh et al. 2013) values are shown at nodes.