Species Toxidia aurantia Braby, 2023

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• Toxidia aurantia Braby, M.F., Zwick, A., Hartley, D. & Nicholls, J. 2023. A new species of trapezitine skipper (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the Kimberley in the Australian Monsoon Tropics. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 22: 1–13 [Date published 2 June 2023].
  Zoobank Registration Number:http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:DAA60297-0A06-499ABEB4- ACD5CC3DFF45

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ANIC Database No. 31 084581 ♂, Kimberley mainland east of Middle Osborne Island, Western Australia, Australia [14.32935ºS, 126.07322ºE].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 1♂, 2♀; WAM 1♀.

Introduction

Toxidia aurantia Braby, 2023 was illustrated, diagnosed and described from the northern Kimberley of Western Australia by Braby et al. (2023). A molecular phylogeny based on one mitochondrial (COX1 barcode fragment) and four nuclear genes (EF1-a, RSB2, RSB5, Wingless) for nearly all members of Toxidia Mabille, 1891 and its sister genus Timoconia Strand, 1909 according to the Maximum Likelihood optimality criterion, indicated that the new species belongs in the Toxidia xanthomera species group and is most closely related to T. crocea (Miskin, 1889). These two taxa are sister to T. xiphiphora (Lower, 1911). Toxidia aurantia is currently known from only a limited area on the mainland in the Admiralty Gulf near the Osborn Islands and Borda Island, WA.

General References

Braby, M.F., Zwick, A., Hartley, D. & Nicholls, J. 2023. A new species of trapezitine skipper (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the Kimberley in the Australian Monsoon Tropics. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 22: 1–13 [Date published 2 June 2023]

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