Appia Evans, 1955

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 : 49

Appia Evans, 1955 is a junior subjective synonym of Pompeius Evans, 1955

The monotypic genus Appia Evans, 1955 (type and the only species Appia appia Evans, 1955 ) originates within Pompeius Evans, 1955 (type species Hesperia pompeius Latreille, [1824] ) being sister to Pompeius amblyspila (Mabille, 1897) and rendering Pompeius paraphyletic (Fig. 54). All of these species are genetically close, e.g., COI barcodes of the type species of Appia and Pompeius differ by only 5% (33 bp). Therefore, to restore the monophyly, we treat Appia Evans, 1955 as a junior subjective synonym of Pompeius Evans, 1955 . Both taxa were proposed in the same work issued on the same date ( Evans 1955), and using ICZN Code Art. 24, we give priority to Pompeius , because this name was used more frequently in the literature and the genus is not monotypic as Appia .