Pyrisitia westwoodii (Boisduval, 1836)

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 : 7

Pyrisitia westwoodii (Boisduval, 1836) is a species distinct from Pyrisitia dina (Poey, 1832)

Currently considered a subspecies of Pyrisitia dina (Poey, 1832) (type locality Cuba), Terias westwoodii Boisduval, 1836 (type locality Mexico) is prominently separated genetically from the insular taxa (Fig. 6).

Compared to Pyrisitia dina helios (M. Bates, 1934)

(type locality Bahamas) the Fst/Gmin statistics are

0.46/0.03 and their COI barcodes are 2.7% (18 bp)

different. Therefore, we propose that Pyrisitia Fig. 6. Pyrisitia westwoodii (red), and dina (blue)

and parvumbra ( Jamaica).

westwoodii (Boisduval, 1836) , reinstated status is a species-level taxon and employ Pyrisitia westwoodii gabriela Le Crom & Llorente, 2004 comb. nov. We also confirm Pyrisitia parvumbra (Kaye, 1925) as a species (Fig. 6; 2.6%, 17 bp barcode difference).