Paronymus volta (L. Miller, 1971) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2023

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Butterfly classification and species discovery using genomics, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (3), pp. 1-94 : 73

Paronymus volta (L. Miller, 1971) is a species distinct from Paronymus cybeutes ( Holland, 1894)

Genetic differentiation as measured by Fst /COI barcode difference between Meza cybeutes volta Miller, 1971 (type locality in Ghana, holotype sequenced as NVG-21043D12) that we placed in the genus Paronymus Aurivillius, 1925 (type species Hesperia ligora Hewitson, 1876 ) and Paronymus leucophaea leucophaea ( Holland, 1894) (type locality in Gabon, syntype sequenced as NVG-21099G06) is: 0.43/3.8% (25 bp) and the two taxa form separate clades in genomic trees ( Figs. 45, 46). Therefore, we propose that Paronymus volta (L. Miller, 1971) , stat. nov. is a species distinct from Paronymus cybeutes ( Holland, 1894). Paronymus cybeutes pallida ( Holland, 1896) (type locality in Congo) does not differ prominently from the nominotypical subspecies, and we retain it as a subspecies of P. cybeutes .