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