Tagiades ceylonica Evans, 1932

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 : 23

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6392056
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/183DE44C-FF98-FFEE-AFF9-FB1CFE3FC2BE
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tagiades ceylonica Evans, 1932
status	stat. nov.

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Tagiades ceylonica Evans, 1932 View in CoL , new status

Named by Evans (1932) as a subspecies of Tagiades litigiosa Möschler, 1878 (type locality Bangladesh: Sylhet) from Sri Lanka, T. ceylonica is set apart from a cluster of T. litigiosa specimens in the genomic tree ( Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ). COI barcodes of T. ceylonica and T. litigiosa differ by 5.5% (36 bp). Additionally noting wing pattern, size and genitalic differences between these taxa described previously ( Evans 1932, 1949), we conclude that T. ceylonica is a species-level taxon.