Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891

Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891 View in CoL and Tagiades presbyter Butler, 1882 , reinstated statuses

Considered by Evans (1949) among subspecies of Tagiades nestus (C. Felder, 1860) ( type locality Amboina), the taxa Tagiades korela Mabille, 1891 ( type locality Waigeo) and Tagiades presbyter Butler, 1882 ( type locality Duke of York Is.) differ phenotypically ( Evans 1949) and genetically from T. nestus and we reinstate them as species ( Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ). For instance, the COI barcode difference between T. nestus gilolensis Mabille, 1878 ( type locality Halmahera Is.) and T. presbyter Butler, 1882 is 3% (20 bp) and that between T. n. gilolensis and T. korela (GenBank accession HQ570836 View Materials ) is 2.3% (15 bp). We tentatively place the following subspecies treated as valid by Evans (1949) under T. korela (while others remain with T. nestus ): Tagiades nestus biakana Evans, 1934 ( type locality Biak Is.), Tagiades nestus mefora Evans, 1934 ( type locality Numfoor Is.), Tagiades suffusus Rothschild, 1915 ( type locality Vulcan Is.), and Tagiades nestus brunta Evans, 1949 ( type locality Muyua Is.). Assignment of some of the T. nestus group subspecies to species is preliminary and is likely to change (for example, they may be species-level taxa) as additional genomic data are analyzed.