Gretna capra Evans, 1937

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 : 80

Gretna capra Evans, 1937 is a species distinct from Gretna carmen Evans, 1937

Originally proposed as a subspecies, Gretna carmen capra Evans, 1937 (type locality in Kenya) is not monophyletic with Gretna carmen Evans, 1937 (type locality in Cameroon) in genomic trees ( Fig. 49) and is strongly differentiated from it genetically, e.g., COI barcode difference of 3.6% (24 bp). Therefore, we propose that Gretna capra Evans, 1937 , stat. nov. is a species distinct from Gretna carmen Evans, 1937 , as hinted by Larsen (1991).