Antigonus alburnea Plötz, 1884

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 : 33

Antigonus alburnea Plötz, 1884 is a junior subjective synonym of Tolius tolimus robigus ( Plötz, 1884)

A syntype of Antigonus alburnea Plötz, 1884 (type locality Brazil: Para, specimen #5992, DNA sample NVG- 15032H11) in the ZMHB is not Echelatus but Tolius , both by genomic analysis and by wing pattern ( Fig. 7 ). Hence, we consider A. alburnea to be a junior subjective synonym of Tolius tolimus robigus ( Plötz, 1884) and not of Echelatus sempiternus simplicior (Möschler, 1877) . The names alburnea and robigus were published in the same work issued on the same date ( Plötz 1884), and we give priority to the name robigus, because this name is used as valid, but alburnea has been placed in synonymy, although with a wrong taxon ( Mielke 2005).

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Figure 7. Genomic tree of Erynnini. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.