Balonca F. Moore, 1901

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2025, Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (5), pp. 1-201 : 10-11

Balonca F. Moore, 1901 is a valid subgenus of Dodona Hewitson, 1861

Genomic analysis of Dodona Hewitson, 1861 (type species Melitaea durga Kollar, 1844 ) reveals that the genus partitions into four prominent clades genetically differentiated at the subgenus level ( Fig. 5). One of these clades corresponds to Balonca F. Moore, 1901 (type species Dodona deodata Hewitson, 1876 ), currently regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Dodona . Dodona and Balonca type species differ by 6.8% (45 bp) in their COI barcodes. Therefore, we propose to treat Balonca F. Moore, 1901 , stat. nov. as

genus group names and, therefore, correspond to the new subgenera described below.