Canesia pallida (Röber, 1925)

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 29

Canesia pallida (Röber, 1925) , reinstated status

Carrhenes pallida Röber, 1925 (type locality Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul) was downgraded by Evans (1953) to a subspecies of Carrhenes canescens (R. Felder, 1869) (type locality Mexico: Veracruz), now in Canesia Grishin, 2019 . Sequencing of the C. pallida holotype (NVG-18094F04) in MTD in the context of several specimens of both taxa reveals that they form two distinct non-sister clades ( Fig. 6 ) prompting us to reinstate C. pallida as a species-level taxon.

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Figure 6. Genomic trees of Pyrgini and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.