Tagiades silvia Evans, 1934

Tagiades silvia Evans, 1934 View in CoL , new status and Tagiades elegans Mabille, 1877 , reinstated status

Treated as subspecies of Tagiades gana (Moore, [1866]) ( type locality “Bengal” [probably Java]) by Evans (1949), Tagiades gana silvia Evans, 1934 ( type locality N. Kanara) and Tagiades elegans Mabille, 1877 ( type locality Philippines) show genetic differentiation among them suggestive of species level for these taxa ( Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ). For instance, T. elegans and Tagiades gana meetana Moore, 1878 ( type locality Meetan) show COI barcode difference of 5.9% (39 bp), or T. elegans and T. g. silvia reveal 3.6% (24 bp). Conversely, the barcodes differ by 0.5% (3 bp) between the nominotypical T. gana specimen from Sumatra (GenBank accession JF851897) and T. g. meetana. Therefore we propose to split the T. gana complex into three species ( T. silvia , T. gana and T. elegans ) and place Tagiades gana fuscata de Jong and Treadaway, 2007 ( type locality Philippines: Mindoro) and, after much hesitation and very tentatively, pending further research, also Tagiades semperi Fruhstorfer, 1910 ( type locality Camiguin Is.) as subspecies of T. elegans . We leave with T. gana other subspecies that Evans (1949) considered valid.