Pellicia (Hemipteris) naja Steinhauser, 1989

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 : 131

Pellicia (Hemipteris) naja Steinhauser, 1989 is a species distinct from Pellicia vecina Schaus, 1902

Originally described and currently treated as a subspecies of Pellicia vecina Schaus, 1902 (type locality Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis, lectotype sequenced as NVG-18061C10), which (see above) is a junior subjective synonym of Pellicia (Hemipteris) tyana Plötz, 1882 (type locality in Brazil, likely São Paulo, lectotype sequenced as NVG-15032D11), Pellicia vecina naja Steinhauser, 1989 (type locality in Peru: Madre de Dios, holotype sequenced as NVG-15038E08) is genetically differentiated from P. tyana — which is a species previously referred to as P. vecina —at the species level ( Fig. 90); e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 2% (13 bp). Therefore, given that we could not associate any older name with it, we propose that Pellicia (Hemipteris) naja Steinhauser, 1989 , stat. nov. is a species distinct from Pellicia vecina Schaus, 1902 .