Neotype Designation for Papilio fulgerator Walch, 1775 (Hesperiidae: Eudaminae)

Authors

• Jing Zhang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Qian Cong, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Gerardo Lamas, Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Nick V. Grishin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Date of this Version

11-1-2022

Document Type

Article

Citation

Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey (November 1, 2022) 10(8): 1-8

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Comments

Copyright 2022, the International Lepidoptera Survey. Open access material

License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 International)

Abstract

The discovery that a skipper butterfly Telegonus fulgerator (Walch, 1775), previously placed in the genus Astraptes Hübner, [1819], is a complex of many similar-looking species-level taxa with different COI barcodes, caterpillar foodplants, and body patterns, and subtle differences in adult phenotypes raised a question about which species is the original T. fulgerator. To answer this question, being unable to locate its holotype, we designate the neotype of Papilio fulgerator Walch, 1775, a female specimen from Suriname in the Zoological State Collection, Munich, Germany. This neotype will form the foundation for a comprehensive revision of the T. fulgerator complex based on genomic sequencing and analysis augmented with phenotypic considerations.

COI = c oxidase subunit I