Fidius ochraceus (O. Mielke, 1980)

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 : 107

Fidius ochraceus (O. Mielke, 1980) confirmed by DNA as a species of Fidius Grishin, 2019

Assigned to the genus Fidius Grishin, 2019 (type species Vidius fido Evans, 1955 ) on the basis of phenotypic similarities with the type species ( Cong et al. 2019b), Vidius ochraceus O. Mielke, 1980 (type locality in Brazil: Paraná) is presently confirmed as Fidius by genomic sequencing of its holotype and allotype ( Fig. 7 ). The COI barcodes between F. fido and F. ochraceus differ by 6.5% (43 bp), which is a large distance for species so similar in their phenotypes.

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FIGURE 7. Nuclear genome tree of selected Moncina: Lerema relatives. See Fig. 4 for notations. Some genera are labeled at their clades. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Rectava (red, with Rectava cascatona, comb. nov. labeled in magenta), Lurida (lime, with Lurida zama, comb. nov. labeled in orange), Corra (cyan, with Corra xanthus, comb. nov. and former subspecies of Corra coryna labeled in purple and darker cyan, respectively), Vidius (blue, with species transferred from Cobalopsis labeled in dark blue), Cymaenes (green, with species transferred from Vidius or Nastra and Cymaenes macintyrei, stat. rest. labeled in olive and lilac), and Vehilius (gray, with species transferred from Vidius, Nastra, or Cymaenes labeled in pink). 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.