Species Erina gilesi (M.R. Williams & Bollam, 2001)

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• Candalides hyacinthinus gilesi Williams, M.R. & Bollam, H.H. 2001. A new subspecies of Candalides hyacinthinus (Semper) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Western Australia. Australian Entomologist 28: 49–54.

Generic Combinations

• Erina hyacinthinus gilesi (M.R. Williams & Bollam, 2001).

Introduction

On the basis of fundamental differences in male and female genitalic morphology (six characters), adult phenotype (nine characters), immature stages (two characters), phylogenetic pattern according to molecular data and level of pairwise divergence (2.8%) and their narrowly sympatric distributions, Braby et al. (2020) treated gilesi as a distinct species sister to E. hyacinthina.

General References

Braby, M.F., Espeland, M., Müller, C.J., Eastwood, R., Lohman, D.J., Kawahara, A.Y., Maunsell, S.C., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Molecular phylogeny of the tribe Candalidini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): systematics, diversification and evolutionary history. Systematic Entomology 45: 703-722

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