Lucillella Strand, 1932

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2021, Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 9 (3), pp. 1-55 : 20

Lucillella Strand, 1932 is a subgenus of Esthemopsis C. & R. Felder, 1865

Lucillella Strand, 1932 (type species Lucilla camissa Hewitson, 1870 ) (Fig. 18 pale blue) and Esthemopsis C. & R. Felder, 1865 (type species Esthemopsis clonia C. & R. Felder, 1865) (Fig. 18 gray) are closely related sisters that form a clade prominently separated from others (Fig. 18) and sister to Mesene Doubleday, 1847 (type species Papilio phareus Cramer, 1777 ) (Fig. 18 olive). Because Mesene is already more diverse than Lucillella and Esthemopsis combined, to achieve better consistency of classification, we propose treating Lucillella Strand, 1932 as a subgenus of Esthemopsis C. & R. Felder, 1865.