Eurema ella (Röber, 1909) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2024

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 : 5

Eurema ella (Röber, 1909) is a species distinct from Eurema elathea (Cramer, 1777)

Genomic phylogeny of all known species of Eurema Hübner, [1819] (type species Papilio delia Cramer, 1780 , a primary junior homonym, valid name for this species is Pieris daira Godart, 1819 ) sensu stricto reveals that Eurema elathea ella (Röber, 1909) (type locality in Ecuador) ( Fig. 3 orange) is not monophyletic with Eurema elathea (Cramer, 1777) (type locality in “Virginia”, possibly Haiti) ( Fig. 3 green) and is closer related to several species that include Eurema daira (Godart, 1819) (type locality in USA: Virginia) ( Fig. 3 purple), but genetically differentiated from them. Therefore, we propose that Eurema ella (Röber, 1909) , stat. nov. is a species distinct from Eurema elathea (Cramer, 1777) .