Harsiesis Fruhstorfer, 1911

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 : 32-33

Harsiesis Fruhstorfer, 1911 is a subgenus of Platypthima Rothschild & Jordan, 1905

Harsiesis Fruhstorfer, 1911 (type species Hypocista [sic] hygea Hewitson, 1863 ) and Platypthima Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (type species Platypthima ornata Rothschild & Jordan, 1905) are characterized by an elevated evolutionary rate as revealed by their longer branches (Fig. 34). Despite their faster evolution, the two are more genetically similar to each other than other pairs of sister genera, e.g.,

COI barcodes between their type species (GenBank accession GQ357203 for P. ornata ) differ by 9.4% (62 bp). Therefore Harsiesis Fruhstorfer, 1911 is a subgenus of Platypthima Rothschild & Jordan, 1905.