Sacrator Evans, 1955

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 : 94

Sacrator Evans, 1955 is a junior subjective synonym of Thracides Hübner, [1819]

The two known species of Sacrator Evans, 1955 (type species Hesperia sacrator Godman and Salvin, 1879 ) originate within Thracides Hübner, [1819] (type species Papilio phidon Cramer, 1779 ) and thus render it paraphyletic ( Fig. 17 ). Due to genetic and morphological ( Evans 1955) similarities of all these species forming a compact clade with genetic differentiation comparable to that of related genera, we restore the monophyly by treating Sacrator as a new junior subjective synonym of Thracides Hübner, [1819] .

Figures

Figure 17. Genomic tree of Carystina, Pericharini, Megathymini and relatives. Clades corresponding to new subtribes described in this work are highlighted in green. See Fig. 1 legend for other notations.