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Issue: Vol. 4743 No. 2: 25 Feb. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4743.2.5
Page range: 217–231
Abstract views: 83
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Morphological and molecular characters reveal the status of Pedesta rubella (Devyatkin, 1996) stat. n. and P. similissima (Devyatkin, 2002) syn. n. (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae)

School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No. 5 Dongfeng Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450002, P. R. China
Fauna & Flora International, Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory I/12, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, No. 96 Jinzhai Road, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, P. R. China
School of Food and Bioengineering, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, No. 5 Dongfeng Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, 450002, P. R. China
Administration of Nonggang National Nature Reserve of Guangxi, Longzhou, Guangxi, 532400, P. R. China
Administration of Nonggang National Nature Reserve of Guangxi, Longzhou, Guangxi, 532400, P. R. China
Lepidoptera Thoressa Pedesta submacula synonym genitalia COI sibling species distribution

Abstract

To clarify the relationships of Pedesta submacula (Leech, 1890), P. submacula rubella (Devyatkin, 1996) and P. similissima (Devyatkin, 2002), specimens from various localities in China and Vietnam, including the type materials of P. submacula rubella and P. similissima were examined. A neighbor-joining (NJ) tree was also reconstructed based upon partial COI sequences of 24 ingroup specimens and 4 outgroup species. The result shows that P. similissima is a synonym of P. submacula, and P. submacula rubella belongs to a separate species. The mean Kimura-2-Parameter genetic distance between P. submacula and P. rubella stat. n. is 4.4%. Wing patterns and genitalic structures of these taxa are illustrated and compared. A distribution map of both species is provided.

 

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