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<taxonomicName authority="Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007" authorityName="Austin &amp; O. Mielke" authorityYear="2007" box="[151,724,1857,1883]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="95" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rufoventris">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,398,1857,1883]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="95">Carystus rufoventris</emphasis>
Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007
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is a subspecies of
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[949,1130,1857,1884]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="95">Carystus elvira</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[151,326,1929,1955]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="95">Hesperia elvira</emphasis>
Pl
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̂tz, 1882 (
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locality in South America), currently a valid species of
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<emphasis box="[1157,1257,1930,1956]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="95">Carystus</emphasis>
Hübner, [1819]
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(
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species
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<emphasis box="[307,453,1965,1991]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="95">Papilio jolus</emphasis>
Stoll, 1782
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) was described from an unstated number of specimens, one of which was referenced by its number
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MFNB (Pl̂tz, 1882a).
<bibRefCitation author="Godman, F. D." box="[778,955,2001,2028]" pageId="4" pageNumber="95" pagination="132 - 155" refId="ref17293" refString="Godman, F. D. (1907) Notes on the American species of Hesperiidae described by Pl ˆ tz. Annals and Magazine of natural History, Series 7, 20, 132 - 155. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930709487316" type="journal article" year="1907">Godman (1907)</bibRefCitation>
did not find a sufficiently similar specimen among those accessible to him, and commissioned the reproduction of the original drawing t[afel]. 436 by Pl̂tz. The original of this plate is presumed lost, but these Godmans copies are in BMNH and t. 436 is show in
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. It is likely that another copy of the original drawing of
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<emphasis box="[825,926,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">H. elvira</emphasis>
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(rather than a drawing made from the actual specimen) was made and eventually published by
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1924) (
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). The two renderings are sufficiently similar and only differ in the amount of detail shown, suggesting that Godmans watercolor may be more accurate than Draudts printed version.
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FIGURE 2. Species of
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[393,476,1067,1091]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">Cabirus</emphasis>
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.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[488,507,1068,1092]" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">a.</emphasis>
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♁ OM
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39.533, French Guiana;
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<emphasis box="[960,1042,1068,1091]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. junta</emphasis>
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,
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♁ OM 88.069, Peru: Madre de Dios;
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<emphasis box="[265,354,1104,1128]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. purda</emphasis>
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,
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♁ OM 81.093, Peru: Loreto;
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<emphasis box="[787,877,1104,1128]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. purda</emphasis>
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,
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<taxonomicNameLabel box="[888,984,1104,1128]" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">stat. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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copulating pair: ♀ (left), ♁ (right), Ecuador: Napo, Tena, iNaturalist observation 96852968 © David Geale, CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/;
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phylogenetic tree constructed from protein-coding regions of the Z chromosome: different species are shown in different colors, labels of illustrated specimens are highlighted in magenta. Photographs
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are by Carlos Mielke.
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We were not able to find a specimen that looks similar to these illustrations in MFNB, also failing to find a specimen with the number 5277 referenced in the original description of
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<emphasis box="[973,1072,1318,1344]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">H. elvira</emphasis>
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. However, we found a record in the collection catalog for this number, reproduced in
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. The catalog lists a single specimen of an undetermined (at that time) species from
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collected by Hugo. Judging by the handwriting, this catalog entry was made by the Entomology curator in MFNB Carl Heinrich Hopffer who died in 1876, therefore this specimen existed before the description of
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<emphasis box="[433,533,1462,1488]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">H. elvira</emphasis>
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in 1882. It is not clear whether other specimens were known to Pl̂tz at the time of description. The lack of their explicit mention in the description does not necessarily imply the absence of other specimens. Moreover, Pl̂tz listed South America instead of
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as the locality for
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<emphasis box="[1151,1251,1534,1560]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">H. elvira</emphasis>
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, which suggests that there might have been specimens from other localities in South America in addition to 5277 from
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.
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The only known specimen identified as
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<emphasis box="[652,751,1606,1632]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. elvira</emphasis>
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in RMNH collection reported by
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(
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). It differs in wingshape and by the presence of subapical hyaline spots from the
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<emphasis box="[1336,1436,1642,1668]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">H. elvira</emphasis>
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drawings (
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) and therefore is not the specimen illustrated, which was likely a male. Judging from the round handwritten locality label (
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) and the pin, the female specimen in RMNH is from the ancient collections and therefore might have been collected as part of the same series with the Surinamese specimen 5277 listed in MFNB catalog. Because both specimens are from
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, phenotypically similar to each other, and uniquely different from any other species, we agree with de Jongs identification of the female as
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<emphasis box="[1037,1134,1822,1848]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. elvira</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis box="[199,429,1858,1884]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">Carystus rufoventris</emphasis>
Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007
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(type locality in
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:
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) was described on the basis of a single specimen, a male (
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).
<bibRefCitation author="Austin, G. T. &amp; Mielke, O. H. H." box="[607,887,1894,1920]" pageId="5" pageNumber="96" pagination="1 - 13" refId="ref16622" refString="Austin, G. T. &amp; Mielke, O. H. H. (2007) Hesperiidae of Rondonia, Brazil: Carystus, with descriptions of two new species (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 148, 1 - 13." type="journal article" year="2007">Austin &amp; Mielke (2007)</bibRefCitation>
compared their new species with
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<emphasis box="[1285,1386,1894,1920]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. elvira</emphasis>
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and concluded that they are distinct without inspecting any
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<emphasis box="[764,861,1930,1956]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. elvira</emphasis>
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specimens. We sequenced genomes of the
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male of
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<emphasis box="[242,398,1966,1992]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. rufoventris</emphasis>
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and the female of
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<emphasis box="[606,703,1966,1992]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="96">C. elvira</emphasis>
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reported by
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and suggest that they are conspecific. First, their COI barcodes are 100% identical and they are grouped closely together in the genomic tree (
<figureCitation box="[1351,1423,151,177]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="8.[151,250,1385,1409]" captionTargetBox="[155,1435,183,1354]" captionTargetId="figure-26@8.[151,1436,181,1361]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURE 4. Nuclear genome tree of selected Carystina and Hesperiina. The tree is constructed from protein-coding regions. Statistical support values are shown by nodes. For each specimen, its name adopted in this work is given first, and a previously used name is listed in square brackets (if different), supplemented with the DNA sample number, type status, general locality, year of collection (when known), and, for primary type specimens, their repository. Synonyms are given in parentheses preceded by “=”, and in addition by “‡” for unavailable names. The type status refers to this synonym, if the synonym name is provided. Green vertical bar cuts the tree into genera, except Vertica, which is characterized by lower evolutionary rate (leaves are closer to the root compared to most others). Yellow shading denotes genera and its width (horizontal dimension) is proportional to the genetic differentiation within each genus. Taxa discussed in the text are shown in different colors: Carystus elvira (orange), Orthos minka, stat. nov. (green), Orthos orthos (purple), Orthos hyalinus, stat. rest. (olive), Oxynthes (blue, subgenus Oeonus labeled in dark blue), Lindra neroides, comb. nov. (red, neotype labeled in margenta), Lindra brasus (cyan), and Decinea (gray)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7864278" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/7864278/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
). Second, the
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look sufficiently similar in appearance to be a pair (
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). Third, they are from localities that frequently harbor the same species in a complex of allopatric similar-looking taxa (
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and
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:
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). However, both specimens differ from the drawings of
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<emphasis box="[1003,1104,259,285]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. elvira</emphasis>
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by having subapical hyaline spots, although the spots are reduced in the male. We also see that the male has only one hyaline spot in the forewing discal cell, not two as the female and the drawings, and a male collected in
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:
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has no spots at all (
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Fig.
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). Moreover, a photographed live male (
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) lacks subapical spots at least ventrally. Therefore, the hyaline spots and their number may be variable in this species.
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suggested that the smaller size of
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<emphasis box="[235,392,439,465]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. rufoventris</emphasis>
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as one of its characters. However, the specimen shown in
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Fig.
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that is more similar to
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than to
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<emphasis box="[369,468,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. elvira</emphasis>
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, is even larger than the original description of
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<emphasis box="[1003,1102,475,501]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. elvira</emphasis>
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indicates: nearly
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(the ruler photographed together) vs.
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forewing length in
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<emphasis box="[818,916,511,537]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. elvira</emphasis>
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.
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FIGURE 3.
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(Plötz, 1882)
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. a.
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Godmans copy of unpublished Pl̂tzs illustration t. 436 [BMNH].
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1321,1341,1721,1745]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">b.</emphasis>
Draudts published illustration, dorsal and ventral images rearranged to match Godmans copy (
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1924).
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1274,1291,1757,1781]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">c.</emphasis>
Excerpt from the collection catalog for no. 5277 [MFNB].
<emphasis bold="true" box="[615,635,1793,1817]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">d.</emphasis>
A specimen identified as
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Plotz" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[902,992,1793,1817]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elvira">
<emphasis box="[902,992,1793,1817]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">C. elvira</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
♀ from Suriname and reported by
<bibRefCitation author="de Jong, R." pageId="6" pageNumber="97" pagination="233 - 268" refId="ref16830" refString="de Jong, R. (1983) Annotated list of the Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera) of Surinam, with descriptions of new taxa. Tijdschrift voor entomologie, 126, 233 - 268." type="journal article" year="1983">de Jong (1983)</bibRefCitation>
with its label [RMNH].
<emphasis bold="true" box="[463,480,1829,1853]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">e.</emphasis>
Holotype of
<taxonomicName authority="Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007" authorityName="Austin &amp; O. Mielke" authorityYear="2007" box="[612,1085,1829,1853]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="6" pageNumber="97" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rufoventris">
<emphasis box="[612,818,1829,1853]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">Carystus rufoventris</emphasis>
Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007
</taxonomicName>
♁ from Brazil: Rondônia [DZUP]. iNaturalist observations from Peru: Madre de Dios, Tambopata:
<emphasis bold="true" box="[805,820,1865,1889]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">f.</emphasis>
94562583, 27-Sep-2019 © David Geale and
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1282,1300,1865,1889]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">g.</emphasis>
94562583 6- Apr-2018 © Joseph See, rotated and brightened. Dorsal and ventral images are on the left and right from each letter, respectively. All images except
<emphasis bold="true" box="[342,350,1937,1961]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">f</emphasis>
are to scale. Photograph
<emphasis bold="true" box="[610,623,1937,1961]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">a</emphasis>
(by N.V.G.) is © of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum London and is made available under Creative Commons License 4.0 (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/),
<emphasis bold="true" box="[1180,1191,1973,1997]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">e</emphasis>
by Diego Dolibaina and
<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,159,2009,2033]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">f</emphasis>
,
<emphasis bold="true" box="[172,185,2009,2033]" pageId="6" pageNumber="97">g</emphasis>
CC BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="7.[151,1437,151,753]" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">
For these reasons, we propose that
<taxonomicName authorityName="Austin &amp; O. Mielke" authorityYear="2007" box="[607,765,547,573]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="98" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rufoventris">
<emphasis box="[607,765,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. rufoventris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is a subspecies of
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Plotz" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[987,1161,547,573]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="98" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elvira">
<emphasis box="[987,1161,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">Carystus elvira</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Pl̂tz, 1882):
<taxonomicName authority="Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007" authorityName="Austin &amp; O. Mielke" authorityYear="2007" baseAuthorityName="Austin &amp; O. Mielke" baseAuthorityYear="2007" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="98" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="elvira" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="rufoventris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">Carystus elvira rufoventris</emphasis>
Austin &amp; O. Mielke, 2007
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis bold="true" box="[684,794,583,609]" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">
<taxonomicNameLabel box="[684,794,583,609]" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">stat. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
Being conservative, we refrain from synonymizing the two, because of possible consistent wing pattern differences between populations from the Guianas and Rondônia/ Madre de Dios, as described by Austin &amp; Mielke, (2007). We hope to test this taxonomic hypothesis further when additional specimens become available, in particular, a male from
<collectingCountry box="[886,993,691,717]" name="Suriname" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">Suriname</collectingCountry>
without apical spots and with two spots in forewing discal cell that would be suitable for
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Plotz" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[701,799,727,753]" class="Insecta" family="Hesperiidae" genus="Carystus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="7" pageNumber="98" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elvira">
<emphasis box="[701,799,727,753]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">C. elvira</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<typeStatus box="[806,895,727,753]" pageId="7" pageNumber="98">neotype</typeStatus>
designation.
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