FIGURE 9 in DNA barcodes, morphology and geographic distribution confirm a new butterfly species in the genus Rhamma (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

FIGURE 9. Neighbor Joining identification tree. Rhamma eleonorae sp. nov sequences are denoted as: Rhamma sp 1 BMC16124 and 22302. Note the placement of Rhamma arria from Llanos de Cuiva. The distances were computed using the Kimura 2-parameter method (Kimura 1980) and are in the units of the number of base substitutions per site. The analysis involved 42 nucleotide sequences. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated. There were a total of 577 positions in the final dataset. Analyses were conducted in MEGA7 (Kumar et al. 2016).