Journal
ZOOKEYS
Volume -, Issue 821, Pages 85-152Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.821.31782
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DNA barcodes; Euptychiina; species delimitation; subspecies; systematics; taxonomy
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- Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INABIO, Ecuador)
- Ecuadorian Ministerio del Ambiente
- National Geographic Society
- Leverhulme Trust
- Darwin Initiative
- National Science Foundation [0103746, 0639861, 1256742]
- Florida Museum of Natural History
- FLMNH Museum Associates
- University of Florida
- University of Florida's Entomology and Nematology Department
- Brazilian Research Council - CNPq [151077/2018-5]
- University of Florida open-access publishing fund
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0103746, 0639861] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We here propose a new, monotypic genus, Amiga Nakahara, Willmott & Espeland, gen. n., to harbor a common Neotropical butterfly, described as Papilio arnaca Fabricius, 1776, and hitherto placed in the genus Chloreuptychia Forster, 1964. Recent and ongoing molecular phylogenetic research has shown Chloreuptychia to be polyphyletic, with C arnaca proving to be unrelated to remaining species and not readily placed in any other described genus. Amiga arnaca gen. n. et comb. n. as treated here is a widely distributed and very common species ranging from southern Mexico to southern Brazil. A neotype is designated for the names Papilio arnaca and its junior synonym, Papilio ebusa Cramer, 1780, resulting in the treatment of the latter name as a junior objective synonym of the former. A lectotype is designated for Euptychia sericeella Bates, 1865, which is treated as a subspecies, Amiga arnaca sericeella (Bates, 1865), comb. n. et stat. n., based on molecular and morphological evidence. We also describe two new taxa, Amiga arnaca adela Nakahara & Espeland, ssp. n. and Amiga arnaca indianacristoi Nakahara & Marin, ssp. n., new subspecies from the western Andes and eastern Central America, and northern Venezuela, respectively.
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