Tagiadini

The Tagiadini are a tribe in the skipper butterfly subfamily Pyrginae. Many of its genera were of uncertain relationships for long, and delimitation of the Tagiadini versus the Celaenorrhini was quite disputed at times. The species of this tribe are found in mostly tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australia.^[1]

Genera[]

Altogether, the tribe contains 27 genera. Some of these seem to form a close-knit group around the tribe's type genus Tagiades. These genera are often collectively called "Tagiades group" and may form a clade:^[1]

"Tagiades group"

• Abantis – paradise skippers
• Caprona – ragged skippers
• Ctenoptilum
• Leucochitonea
• Netrobalane – buff-tipped skipper
• Odontoptilum
• Semperium
• Tagiades – water flats, snow flats

Other genera

Discovery[]

(Molecular and morphological evidence reveals that Daimio Murray, 1875 is a junior synonym of Tagiades Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Tagiadini)

Previous studies have shown that the genus Tagiades Hübner, 1819 is paraphyletic with regard to Daimio Murray, 1875 and/or Darpa Moore, 1866. In this study, we attempt to disentangle the relationships among these three genera based on an integrative approach including molecular data, morphological characters, and biological data from available sources. All evidence shows that Daimio and Tagiades are congeneric, isolated from Darpa. According to the rule of priority, Daimio (syn. n.) is a junior synonym of Tagiades. Therefore, we subsume tethys under Tagiades as Tagiades tethys (Ménétriés, 1875), comb. n.^[2]

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References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tagiadini.

• Brower, Andrew V.Z (2007): Tree of Life Web Project – Tagiadini. Version of 2007-DEC-12. Retrieved 2009-DEC-24.

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