Tribe Hypochrysopini

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Introduction

Eliot (1973) divided the Luciini Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914 into two informal sections: the Lucia section and the Hypochrysops section. The Hypochrysops section included the genera Hypochrysops C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860, Philiris Röber, 1891, and Titea Eliot, 1973. Kawahara et al. (2023) demonstrated that the Luciini were polyphyletic, with each section emerging as two separate monophyletic clades that were distantly related to one another. Based on a substantially smaller but independent data set, Zhang et al. (2023) also recovered the Luciini as polyphyletic, and based on this evidence erected a new tribe, Hypochrysopini Grishin, 2023 (type genus: Hypochrysops C. Felder & R. Felder, 1860), to accommodate the Hypochrysops section of genera (i.e., Hypochrysops, Philiris, and Titea).

General References

Eliot, J.N. 1973. The higher classification of the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera): a tentative arrangement. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) 28(6): 371-505

Kawahara, A.Y., Storer, C., Carvalho, A.P.S., et al. 2023. A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7: 903–913 [Date published 15 May 2023]

Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J., Song, L. & Grishin, N.V. 2023. Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics. The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11: 1-93 [Date published 2 October 2023]

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