Pholisora albicirrus Glassberg 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 : 64

Pholisora albicirrus Glassberg, 2023 is a species distinct from Pholisora catullus (Fabricius, 1793)

We find the genetic differentiation between Pholisora catullus (Fabricius, 1793) (type locality “Indiis,” probably eastern USA) and Pholisora catullus albicirrus Glassberg 2023 (type locality in USA: AZ, Santa Rita Mts.) to be of a magnitude suggestive of distinct species: Fst /COI differences are 0.46/2.3% (15 bp) ( Fig. 40), similar to that for Pholisora crestar J. Scott & Davenport, 2017 (type locality in USA: CA, Tulare Co.) (Zhang et al. 2020). Therefore, we propose that Pholisora albicirrus Glassberg 2023 , stat. nov. is a species-level taxon in agreement with phenotypic differences mentioned in the original description (Glassberg 2023), which, from our experience with other Hesperiidae , also suggest species, and not subspecies, status.