Alera Mabille 1891
- Dataset
- Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Hesperiidae
- genus
- Alera
discussion
We find (Fig. 13) that Alera furcata Mabille, 1891 and Perichares philetes (Gmelin, [1790]), the type species of both genera (technically, Papilio coridon Fabricius, 1775, a homonym, considered to refer to Perichares philetes, is the type species of Perichares) are genetically close (COI barcodes differ by about 6.5 %). Moreover, several species of Alera that we sequenced are not monophyletic and are interspersed between species of Perichares. For these reasons, we consider Alera to be a subjective junior synonym of Perichares.
Name
- Homonyms
- Alera Mabille 1891