Abaeis gratiosa (E. Doubleday, 1847)

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (3), pp. 1-94 : 8

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2643-4806

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F1878B-FF87-FFAE-27D1-FA7AFD4BF4DE

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scientific name

Abaeis gratiosa (E. Doubleday, 1847)
status

 

Abaeis gratiosa (E. Doubleday, 1847) and Abaeis angulata (Wallengren, 1860) are species-level taxa, not subspecies of Abaeis arbela (Geyer, 1832)

Genomic sequencing of taxa treated as subspecies of Eurema arbela Geyer, 1832 ( type locality in “Java”, possibly southern Brazil) in Lamas (2004), currently in the genus Abaeis Hübner, [1819] ( type species Papilio nicippe Cramer, 1779 ) (Zhang et al. 2019b), confirms that Abaeis boisduvaliana (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865) ( type locality in Mexico) is a distinct species due to its genetic differentiation from A. arbela ( Fig. 4 green and red). E.g., its COI barcode is 3.3% (22 bp) different. Moreover, we find that Abaeis gratiosa (E. Doubleday, 1847) , stat. rest. ( type locality in Venezuela) and Abaeis angulata (Wallengren, 1860) , stat. rest. ( type locality not given, likely in Ecuador) are prominently differentiated genetically from A. arbela , A. boisduvaliana , and each other both in nuclear and mitochondrial genomes ( Fig. 4) and, therefore, are best treated as distinct species. Fst / Gmin /COI difference for the pairs of closest (in nuclear genome) relatives are: A. gratiosa and A. arbela : 0.21/0.01/3.5% (23 bp) and A. angulata and A. boisduvaliana : 0.64/0.001/3.6% (24 bp).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pieridae

Genus

Abaeis

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