Cymaenes lumina ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 ) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022

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 : 67

Cymaenes lumina ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) , new combination

Genome-based phylogenetic analysis of the Cobalus lumina Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 (type locality not specified) syntype in the ZMHB collection (NVG-18043C06) places it within the Cymaenes Scudder, 1872 (type species Cobalus tripunctus Herrich-Schäffer, 1865 ) clade and away from Lerema Scudder, 1872 (type species Papilio accius J. E. Smith, 1797 ), where C. lumina has been placed previously ( Fig. 14 ). We confirm this specimen, lacking the head, abdomen, right forewing and part of the right hindwing as a syntype, because it is from the Herrich- Schäffer collection according to its label, agrees with the original description of C. lumina , curated as the type and bears a label “ lumina ” in handwriting similar to that on the labels of many Herrich-Schäffer type specimens. The description is given as a key to species, and for C. lumina it states on page 203: “ US der Hfl mit scharf licht zackig begrenztem dunklerem MBand” ( Herrich-Schäffer 1869), which can be translated literally as “Underside of the hindwing with sharp light jagged outlined darker middle band” (i.e., ventral hindwing with a darker middle band sharply outlined by jagged pale areas), which matches the syntype very well, but does not agree with many specimens currently identified as this species. Furthermore, lumina #65 is placed in the key next to asella #66 (a junior subjective synonym of Amblyscirtes alternata (Grote and Robinson, 1867)) , a species with rounded wing shape similar to the lumina syntype (wings are more elongated in Lerema ). A syntype of Cobalus asella Herrich- Schäffer, 1869 is also in the ZMHB collection and bears labels similar to those of the C. lumina syntype. Therefore, we are convinced that the sequenced specimen (NVG-18043C06) is indeed a syntype of C. lumina , that N.V.G. hereby designates as the lectotype to stabilize the usage of this name, and hence we propose the new combination Cymaenes lumina ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) . The lectotype is in the ZMHB collection, it lacks the right forewing, head and abdomen and bears the following seven labels || Origin. || lumina || Coll. H.—Sch. || Coll. | Staudinger || Lumina | H-Sch. | Micylla Burm. || [barcode image] http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/ | 44a05a || DNA sample ID: | NVG-18043C06 | c/o Nick V. Grishin ||.

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Figure 14. Genomic tree of Moncina, part 2. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.