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Riodinidae 77a0682 – 4404   Apodemia hepburni Godman & Salvin, 1886

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: hepburni Godman & Salvin, 1886 (Apodemia) - MONA 1983: 4404 Taxonomic Notes: Apodemia hepburni Godman & Salvin, 1886, previously placed in the genus Plesioarida, n. gen., in Trujano-Ortega et al. (2018), is returned to the genus Apodemia by Zhang et al. (2019) with Plesioarida treated as a subgenus.

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 Trujano-Ortega, M., U.O. García-Vázquez, C.J. Callaghan, O. Ávalos-Hernández, M.A. Luis-Martínez & J.E. Llorente-Bousquets, 2018. Two new genera of metalmark butterflies of North and Central America (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae). ZooKeys, 729: 61-85. Zhang, J., J. Shen, Q. Cong, N.V. Grishin, 2019. Genomic analysis of the tribe Emesidini (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Zootaxa, 4668(4): 475-488.

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