Mnasitheus padus ( Evans, 1955 ) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Grishin, 2022
publication ID |
https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.6392056 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/183DE44C-FFD6-FFA0-AFF9-F9EBFEFEC080 |
treatment provided by |
Felipe |
scientific name |
Mnasitheus padus ( Evans, 1955 ) |
status |
comb. nov. |
Mnasitheus padus ( Evans, 1955) , new combination
Named by Evans (1955) in Moeris Godman, 1900 (type species Talides striga Geyer, [1832] ), padus Evans, 1955 is not monophyletic with it, and is instead sister to Mnasitheus chrysophrys ( Mabille, 1891) , a valid name for Mnasitheus cephis Godman, 1900 , which is the type species of Mnasitheus ( Fig. 15 View Figure 15 ). The two species are genetically close, for example, COI barcodes differ by 7.8% (51 bp), and are similar in genitalia. Moreover, in their revision of Moeris Godman, 1900 (type species Talides striga Geyer, [1832] ), Carneiro et al. (2015) mentioned a cleft between ampulla and harpe that is absent in all Moeris species except M. padus , but present in Eutychide submetallescens Hayward, 1940 that they place in Mnasitheus . Genomic tree shows that M. submetallescens is more distant from the type species of Mnasitheus than M. padus . Therefore, we confidently place M. padus in Mnasitheus , new combination.
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