Pistoria Hemming, 1964

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Genomic analysis reveals new species and subspecies of butterflies, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (6), pp. 1-63 : 26

Pistoria Hemming, 1964 is a junior subjective synonym of Caleta Fruhstorfer, 1922

Adding DNA segments of Mambara nigropunctata Bethune-Baker, 1908 (type locality in Papua New Guinea, biosample SAMN18674175), the type species of currently valid genus Pistoria Hemming, 1964 , taken from the alignment provided in Kawahara et al. (2023) ( Fig. 23 red) to our genomic datasets of its relatives, we find that Pistoria nigropunctata originates within Caleta Fruhstorfer, 1922 (type species Lycaena caleta Hewitson, 1876 ), rendering it paraphyletic. To restore the monophyly, due to the genetic closeness of Pistoria nigropunctata and Caleta caleta (COI barcode difference of 5.9%, 39 bp), we propose that Pistoria Hemming, 1964 , syn. nov. is a junior subjective synonym of Caleta Fruhstorfer, 1922 .