Methone Doubleday, 1847

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 : 14

Methone Doubleday, 1847 receives 9 species from Euselasia Hübner, [1819]

We find that Euselasia Hübner, [1819] (type species Euselasia gelaena Hübner, [1819] , which is Papilio gelon Stoll, 1787 ) as currently defined is paraphyletic with respect to Methone Doubleday, 1847 (type species Papilio cecilia Cramer, 1777 ), and a number of Euselasia species belong to the clade with Methone cecilia (Fig. 15 red and brown). The type species of Euselasia and Methone are genetically distant from each other, e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 11.5% (76 bp), which is typical for species in different genera. Therefore, to restore the monophyly, instead of placing Methone in Euselasia , we transfer Methone -clade species (Fig. 15 red) and their phenotypically close relatives from Euselasia to Methone to form the following new combinations: Methone euploea (Hewitson, [1855]) , Methone eucerus (Hewitson, 1872) , Methone hypophaea (Godman & Salvin, 1878) , Methone eubule (R. Felder, 1869) , Methone onorata (Hewitson, 1869) , Methone authe (Godman, 1903) , Methone dolichos (Staudinger, [1887]) , Methone baucis (Stichel, 1919) , and Methone eucrates (Hewitson, 1872) .