1. Lebendfotos

1.1. Falter

2. Weitere Informationen

2.1. Taxonomie

Zhang et al. (2025: 159) fanden keine Unterschiede in der DNA zu Onespa gala (Godman, 1900), verzichten aber noch auf taxonomische Konsequenzen: “This is the first example we encountered when a pair of species with reported genitalic differences in both sexes (albeit rather minute in our opinion) do not form separate well-supported clades in the genomic trees, and it warrants a more detailed study. It is possible that the two taxa are subspecies (in genome-scale trees, valid subspecies do not always segregate into discrete clades), or they speciated only recently and have not gained sufficient overall genetic differentiation in the presence of reproductive isolation. Here, we bring this unusual example to the attention of the research community without proposing taxonomic changes to the current classification.”

2.2. Literatur

• Erstbeschreibung: Austin, G. T. & A. D. Warren (2009): New looks at and for Onespa, Buzyges, and Librita (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with new combinations and descriptions ofa new genus and six new species. — Insecta Mundi 89: 1-55. [PDF auf journals.flvc.org]
• Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J., Song, L. & N. V. Grishin (2025): Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis. — The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (5): 1-200. [PDF digitalcommons.unl.edu]