Vettius pica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869)

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2024, Taxonomic advances driven by the genomic analysis of butterflies, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (7), pp. 1-43 : 38

Vettius pica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) is a species distinct from Vettius lafrenaye (Latreille, [1824])

Genomic sequencing reveals that Vettius lafrenaye pica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) (type locality not specified) is genetically differentiated from Vettius lafrenaye lafrenaye (Latreille, [1824]) (type locality in Brazil) at the species level ( Fig. 34), e.g., their Fst / Gmin statistics are 0.62/0.002, but the COI barcodes introgress between them, with the specimen from Costa Rica showing a difference of 1.5% (10 bp) from others. Therefore, we propose that Vettius pica (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) , stat. rest. is a species distinct from Vettius lafrenaye (Latreille, [1824]) .