Vacciniina Tutt, 1909

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 : 29

Vacciniina Tutt, 1909 is a valid subgenus of Agriades Hübner, [1819]

Vacciniina Tutt, 1909 (type species Papilio optilete Knoch, 1781 ) is currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of Albulina Tutt, 1909 (type species Papilio pheretes Hoffmansegg, 1804 , a replacement name for Papilio atys Hübner, [1804] , regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Papilio orbitulus de Prunner, 1798 ), is not monophyletic with it, and instead remains in the genus Agriades Hübner, 1819 (type species Papilio glandon Prunner, 1798 ) ( Fig. 22). Currently, A. optilete is assigned to a subgenus different from the nominotypical. To keep this hierarchy, we propose that Vacciniina Tutt, 1909 , stat. rest. is a valid subgenus. This view is consistent with higher genetic differentiation of A. optilete from other Agriades .