Corra conka ( Evans, 1955 ) 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

Corra catargyra (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) , reinstated status and Corra conka ( Evans, 1955) , new status with Corra conka argentus (H. Freeman, 1969) , new status, new combination, as its subspecies

Genomic analysis of Hesperia catargyra C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867 (type locality Venezuela and Colombia) and Vettius coryna conka Evans, 1955 (type locality in Guatemala) ( Fig. 7 dark cyan) reveals their prominent genetic differentiation from Hesperia coryna Hewitson, 1866 (type locality in Brazil: Amazonas), the type species of Corra Grishin, 2019 ( Fig. 7 cyan). E.g., COI barcodes of V. c. conka and C. coryna differ by 5.5% (36 bp). Therefore, instead of keeping these taxa as subspecies of C. coryna , we propose to treat them as species: Corra catargyra (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) , stat. rest. and Corra conka ( Evans, 1955) , stat. nov. Due to the limited genetic differentiation between Vettius argentus Freeman, 1969 (type locality in Mexico: Chiapas, holotype NVG-18025D09 sequenced) and C. conka , as reflected in their 100% identical COI barcodes, we propose Corra conka argentus (H. Freeman, 1969) , stat. nov., comb. nov.

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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.