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Riodinidae
77a0690 – 4408   Apodemia nais (Edwards, 1877)
Distribution Data for Apodemia nais
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Synonymy: Chrysophanus nais Edwards, 1877
Taxonomic Notes: Apodemia nais (Edwards, 1877), previously placed in the genus Neoapodemia, n. gen., in Trujano-Ortega et al. (2018), is returned to the genus Apodemia by Zhang et al. (2019) with Neoapodemia 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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