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

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.

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9645580 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature