Lurida zama (Hayward, 1939) Zhang & Dolibaina & Cong & Shen & Song & Mielke & Casagrande & Mielke & Grishin, 2023

Zhang, Jing, Dolibaina, Diego R., Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina, Mielke, Carlos G. C., Casagrande, Mirna M., Mielke, Olaf H. H. & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Taxonomic notes on Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 5271 (1), pp. 91-114 : 106

Lurida zama (Hayward, 1939) , new combination

Lerodea zama Hayward, 1939 (type locality in Argentina: Tucuman) ( Fig. 7 orange) is not monophyletic with Cymaenes Scudder, 1872 (type species Cobalus tripunctus Herrich-Schäffer, 1865 ) ( Fig. 7 green), where it is currently placed, and instead is sister to Lurida lurida ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) , type species Lurida Grishin, 2019 ( Fig. 7 lime). The COI barcode difference between L. zama and L. lurida is 6.5% (43 bp), suggesting close, and hence congeneric, relationships. Therefore, we propose Lurida zama (Hayward, 1939) , comb. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Nuclear genome tree of selected Moncina: Lerema relatives. See Fig. 4 for notations. Some genera are labeled at their clades. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Rectava (red, with Rectava cascatona, comb. nov. labeled in magenta), Lurida (lime, with Lurida zama, comb. nov. labeled in orange), Corra (cyan, with Corra xanthus, comb. nov. and former subspecies of Corra coryna labeled in purple and darker cyan, respectively), Vidius (blue, with species transferred from Cobalopsis labeled in dark blue), Cymaenes (green, with species transferred from Vidius or Nastra and Cymaenes macintyrei, stat. rest. labeled in olive and lilac), and Vehilius (gray, with species transferred from Vidius, Nastra, or Cymaenes labeled in pink). Green arrows point from the clade of the genus where a species was previous placed to the clade of the species that is being transferred between genera.