Lattus minor (O. Mielke, 1967), 2023

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 : 104

Lattus minor (O. Mielke, 1967) , new combination

Genomic sequencing of the holotype of Eutocus minor O. Mielke, 1967 (type locality in Brazil: Distrito Federal) ( Fig. 6 dark green) reveals that it is sister to Lattus arabupuana (Bell, 1932) (type locality in Brazil: Roraima), which is the type species of Lattus Grishin, 2022 ( Fig. 6 gray). The COI barcodes between the two species differ by 6.4% (43 bp). Their genitalia are uniquely similar in long and thin gnathos arms and aedeagus with a long style. Therefore, we propose Lattus minor (O. Mielke, 1967) , comb. nov.

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FIGURE 6. Nuclear genome tree of selected Moncina: Psoralis and Artines relatives. See Fig. 4 for notations. Note extreme heterogeneity of evolutionary rates in different lineages, compared to mostly homogenous rates in Fig. 4 tree. Some genera are labeled at their clades. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Mucia (blue, with Mucia rusta, comb. nov. labeled in dark blue), Rhomba (cyan, with Rhomba mirnae, comb. nov. labeled in purple), Eprius (green, with Eprius planus, comb. nov. and Eprius obrepta, stat. nov. labeled in orange and olive, respectively), Panca (violet, with Panca fiedleri, comb. nov. labeled in brown), Eutocus (red, with Eutocus brasilia, comb. nov. and Eutocus fosca, comb. nov. labeled in magenta), and Lattus (gray, with Lattus minor, comb. nov. labeled in dark green). Green arrows point from the clade of the genus where a species was placed previously (name in square brackets) to the clade of the species that is being transferred between genera.