Staphylus (Vulga) satrap Evans, 1953

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Genomics-based taxonomic rearrangement of Achlyodini and Carcharodini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae), Insecta Mundi 2023 (16), pp. 1-33 : 29

Staphylus (Vulga) satrap Evans, 1953 is a species distinct from Staphylus (Vulga) saxos Evans, 1953

Described as a subspecies of Staphylus saxos Evans, 1953 (type locality in Colombia: Cali), S. s. satrap Evans, 1953 (type locality in Bolivia) is not monophyletic with it and is genetically differentiated from it at the level characteristic of distinct species ( Fig. 5 ), e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 4.4% (29 bp). Moreover, Evans (1953) mentions and illustrates differences in genitalia that suggest species level of these taxa. Therefore, we propose that Staphylus (Vulga) satrap Evans, 1953 , new status, is a species distinct from Staphylus (Vulga) saxos Evans, 1953 , and the latter becomes monotypic.

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Figure 5. The nuclear genome-based phylogeny of Carcharodini, middle segment (continues in 6, see Fig. 4 for the first segment) showing Pholisorina subtrib. n. Species formerly placed in Staphylus are labeled in red. Asterisk marks a species with a dedicated study (Lemes et al. 2023) that already assigned it to Bolla. See Fig. 1 for notations.