Cantha eteocla (Plötz, 1882)

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

Cantha eteocla (Plötz, 1882) and Cantha buriti (O. Mielke, 1968) , new combinations

Hesperia eteocla Pl ̂tz, 1882 (type locality in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro) and Phlebodes buriti O. Mielke, 1968 (type locality in Brazil: Mato Grosso) ( Fig. 8 dark green), including their primary type specimens, cluster among Cantha Evans, 1955 (type species Cantha calva Evans, 1955 ) ( Fig. 8 purple) in the nuclear genomic tree and are not monophyletic with Papilio pertinax Stoll, [1781] (type locality in Suriname), the type species of Phlebodes Hübner, [1819] , the genus of their current placement. Therefore, we propose Cantha eteocla (Pl̂tz, 1882), comb. nov. and Cantha buriti (O. Mielke, 1968) , comb. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Nuclear genome tree of selected Moncina: Phlebodes relatives. See Fig. 4 for notations. Some genera are labeled at their clades. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Cantha (purple, with species transferred from Phlebodes labeled in dark green), Duroca (violet, with Duroca caraca, comb. nov. and Duroca lenta, stat. nov. labeled in aquamarine and brown, respectively). Green arrows point from the clade of the genus where a species was previous placed to the clade of the species that is being transferred between genera.