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.