Salatis pelignus (Hewitson, 1867)

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2024, New taxa of butterflies supported by genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (3), pp. 1-63 : 16

Salatis pelignus (Hewitson, 1867) is a species distinct from Salatis salatis (Stoll, 1782)

Genomic analysis reveals that a specimen of Salatis Evans, 1952 (type species Papilio salatis Stoll, 1782 ) from Southeast Brazil, together with another specimen from an unknown locality (possibly from around Rio de Janeiro , Brazil), are genetically differentiated from others at the species level in the Z chromosome ( Fig. 17a) with Fst / Gmin of 0.34/0.00, although not differing significantly in the mitochondrial genome ( Fig. 17b). Thus, these two specimens represent a species distinct from Salatis salatis (Stoll, 1782) (type locality in Suriname), and the name Eudamus pelignus Hewitson, 1867 (type locality in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro ) applies to them judging by the locality and phenotypic similarity. Therefore, we propose that Salatis pelignus (Hewitson, 1867) , stat. rest. is a species distinct from Salatis salatis (Stoll, 1782) . Furthermore, we suggest, pending further examination of their primary type specimens, to treat two other taxa with the southern distribution, i.e., Eudamus sebrus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867 (type locality in Brazil: Bahia) and Bungalotis sapucayae Jörgensen, 1935 (type locality in Paraguay: Sapucaí), as junior subjective synonyms of Salatis pelignus (Hewitson, 1867) , stat. rest. and not of S. salatis .