Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891

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Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891 and Tagiades presbyter Butler, 1882 , reinstated statuses

Considered by Evans (1949) among subspecies of Tagiades nestus (C. Felder, 1860) (type locality Amboina), the taxa Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891 (type locality Waigeo) and Tagiades presbyter Butler, 1882 (type locality Duke of York Is.) differ phenotypically ( Evans 1949) and genetically from T. nestus and we reinstate them as species ( Fig. 4 ). For instance, the COI barcode difference between T. nestus gilolensis Mabille, 1878 (type locality Halmahera Is.) and T. presbyter Butler, 1882 is 3% (20 bp) and that between T. n. gilolensis and T. korela (GenBank accession HQ570836 ) is 2.3% (15 bp). We tentatively place the following subspecies treated as valid by Evans (1949) under T. korela (while others remain with T. nestus ): Tagiades nestus biakana Evans, 1934 (type locality Biak Is.), Tagiades nestus mefora Evans, 1934 (type locality Numfoor Is.), Tagiades suffusus Rothschild, 1915 (type locality Vulcan Is.), and Tagiades nestus brunta Evans, 1949 (type locality Muyua Is.). Assignment of some of the T. nestus group subspecies to species is preliminary and is likely to change (for example, they may be species-level taxa) as additional genomic data are analyzed.

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Figure 4. Genomic tree of Tagiades. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.