Ocybadistes hypomeloma, Lower, 1911
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Ocybadistes hypomeloma View in CoL Lower, 1911 belongs to the genus Potanthus Scudder, 1872 and not Ocybadistes Heron, 1894
Genomic analysis reveals that Ocybadistes hypomeloma Lower, 1911 ( type locality in Australia: Sydney, the sequenced specimen shown in Fig. 45a) since its description placed in Ocybadistes Heron, 1894 ( type species Ocybadistes walkeri Heron, 1894 ) is not monophyletic with it and instead originates within Potanthus Scudder, 1872 ( type species Hesperia omaha Edwards, 1863 ) that includes Suniana Evans, 1934 ( type species Pamphila lascivia Rosenstock, 1885 ) as a subgenus, see above ( Fig. 44). Therefore, we propose that O. hypomeloma belongs to the genus Potanthus Scudder, 1872 and not Ocybadistes Heron, 1894 , as Potanthus hypomeloma (Lower, 1911), comb. nov. Potanthus hypomeloma is confidently placed as sister to sequenced specimens of the subgenus Potanthus in the Z chromosome tree ( Fig. 44b), is a confident sister to the subgenus Suniana in the mitochondrial genome tree ( Fig. 44c), and its affinity within the genus Potanthus is not strongly supported in the autosome tree ( Fig. 44a). Therefore, P. hypomeloma is from a lineage equivalent to the subgenera Potanthus and Suniana , hence representing a separate subgenus, which is new, because there are no available genus-group names associated with it.
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