Cobaloides Hayward, 1939

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 : 50

Cobaloides Hayward, 1939 is a subgenus of Oligoria Scudder, 1872

Next, we find that Cobaloides (now including Jongiana ) clusters closely with Oligoria Scudder, 1872 (type species Hesperia maculata Edwards, 1865 ) ( Fig. 11 ), and genetic differentiation between them is more in line of subgenera than genera. For instance, COI barcode difference between their type species is 5.5% (36 bp), even less than the difference between Cobaloides and Jongiana . Male genitalia are similar in shape (see previous section) and show more variability within Oligoria species than between Oligoria and Cobaloides . Thus, we place Cobaloides in Oligoria as a subgenus, new status.

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Figure 11. Genomic tree of Hesperiina and relatives. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.