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Riodinidae 77a0694 – 4399   Apodemia cleis (Edwards, 1882)

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: cleis Edwards 1882 (Lemonias); Type locality: Graham Co., AZ zela of authors not Butler 1870 (Emesis) Taxonomic Notes: Apodemia cleis (Edwards, 1882), formerly a subspecies of [4399] Apodemia zela (Butler, 1870) is raised to full species status in Zhang et al. (2022). "True" zela, formerly in the genus Emesis, is extralimital north of Mexico.

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced. Species Page at BugGuide.Net Species Page at the Butterflies of America Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, L. Song, R.J. Gott, P. Boyer, C.S. Guppy, S. Kohler, G. Lamas, P.A. Opler, N.V. Grishin, 2022. Taxonomic discoveries enabled by genomic analysis of butterflies. Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 10(7): 1-60.

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