Phyllopsora chodatinica Elix

Description.

Elix (2006, 2009).

Distribution.

Australasia (Elix 2009) and Oceania.

Remarks.

This species resembles P. porphyromelaena and P. sabahana, to which it is closely related in the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1), but differs in the presence of xanthones and the absence of argopsin and norargopsin. Kistenich et al. (in press) showed that probably all Neotropical records of this species (e.g., by Timdal 2008b, 2011) belong in another species, P. neotinica . Phyllopsora chodatinica (Fig. 3B) is new to Malaysia, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu.