Rectava cascatona (O. Mielke, 1992) 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

Rectava cascatona (O. Mielke, 1992) , new combination

Proposed in the genus Papias Godman, 1900 (type species Pamphila integra Mabille, 1891 ), P. cascatona O. Mielke, 1992 (type locality in Brazil: Minas Gerais) is not monophyletic with it, and its holotype ( Fig. 7 magenta) is placed within Rectava Grishin, 2022 (type species Megistias ignarus E. Bell, 1932 ) ( Fig. 7 red) in the nuclear genome tree. The COI barcodes of P. cascatona and R. ignarus holotypes differ by 5.3% (35 bp), a distance typical for close congeners. Therefore, we propose Rectava cascatona (O. Mielke, 1992) , 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.