Bolla (Stolla) madrea (R. Williams and E. Bell, 1940)

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Genomics-based taxonomic rearrangement of Achlyodini and Carcharodini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae), Insecta Mundi 2023 (16), pp. 1-33 : 27

Bolla (Stolla) madrea (R. Williams and E. Bell, 1940) and Bolla (Stolla) hazelae (Hayward, 1940) are species distinct from Bolla (Stolla) zorilla (Plötz, 1886)

Genomic sequencing of the holotypes of Pholisora madrea R. Williams and E. Bell, 1940 (type locality in Peru: Madre de Dios, NVG-15097C09, GenBank barcode OR665731) and Pholisora hazelae Hayward, 1940 (type locality in Ecuador, NVG-18024G08, GenBank barcode OR665732) and a syntype of Antigonus zorilla Plötz, 1886 (type locality in Panama, NVG-18056H01, GenBank barcode OR665733), currently treated as conspecific in the genus Bolla Mabille, 1903 (type species Bolla pullata Mabille, 1903 , considered a junior subjective synonym of Staphylus imbras Godman and Salvin, 1896 ) reveals that while all three are in the same clade, they are genetically differentiated at the level not unprecedented even for subgenera ( Fig. 5 ), e.g., COI barcode differences are: 8.2% (54 bp) for P. madrea and P. hazelae , 7.1% (47 bp) for P. madrea and A. zorilla , and 7.6% (50 bp) for P. hazelae and A. zorilla . Therefore, we propose that Bolla (Stolla) madrea (R. Williams and E. Bell, 1940) , restored status, and Bolla (Stolla) hazelae (Hayward, 1940) , restored status, are species distinct from Bolla (Stolla) zorilla (Plötz, 1886) .

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Figure 5. The nuclear genome-based phylogeny of Carcharodini, middle segment (continues in 6, see Fig. 4 for the first segment) showing Pholisorina subtrib. n. Species formerly placed in Staphylus are labeled in red. Asterisk marks a species with a dedicated study (Lemes et al. 2023) that already assigned it to Bolla. See Fig. 1 for notations.