Ankola Evans, 1937

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 : 40

Ankola Evans, 1937 is a junior subjective synonym of Pardaleodes Butler, 1870

A monotypic genus Ankola Evans, 1937 (type species Osmodes (?) fan Holland, 1894 ) renders Pardaleodes Butler, 1870 (type species Papilio edipus Stoll, [1781] ) paraphyletic ( Fig. 10 ). Due to genetic and morphological ( Evans 1937) closeness of these species that form a compact clade in the tree similar in genetic differentiation to Ceratrichia Butler, [1870] (type species Papilio nothus Fabricius, 1787 ), we restore monophyly by treating Ankola , as a new junior subjective synonym of Pardaleodes Butler, 1870 .

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Figure 10. Genomic tree of Ceratrichiini and Astictopterini. See Fig. 1 legend for notations.