Grishin, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2023

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 : 31

Goniurus proteoides Plötz, 1881 is a junior subjective synonym of Urbanus proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872) and not of Urbanus proteus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Genomic analysis of a syntype of Goniurus proteoides Plötz, 1881 (type locality in North America, NVG-15029D03) currently considered a junior subjective synonym of Urbanus proteus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type locality in America) (Mielke 2005) reveals that it is not monophyletic with the latter and instead placed within specimens of Urbanus proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872) (type locality in Haiti), in agreement with Evans (1952) ( Fig. 29). Therefore, we regard Goniurus proteoides Plötz, 1881 as a junior subjective synonym of Urbanus proteus domingo (Scudder, 1872) and not of Urbanus proteus proteus drawing t[afel].33 by Plötz of G. proteoides , wrote that he had its “Specimens from the Lesser Antilles in the G. & S. coll.” To stabilize nomenclature, N.V.G. hereby designates the sole syntype curated in the MFNB collection, a male with the following five labels, the 2 nd handwritten and others printed, the 1 st red and others white: [Type], [proteoides | Pl. 104], [Coll. H.—Sch], [{QR Code} http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/ | e1f97d], and [DNA sample ID: | NVG-15029D03 | c/o Nick V. Grishin ] as the lectotype of Goniurus proteoides Plötz, 1881 . The type locality of G. proteoides is in the Antilles (unclear if the Greater or the Lesser). Sequencing additional specimens of U. p. domingo across its range may pinpoint the type locality more precisely.