Pellicia (Hemipteris) toza Evans, 1953

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 : 130

Pellicia (Hemipteris) toza Evans, 1953 is a species distinct from Pellicia (Hemipteris) tyana Plötz, 1882

Genomic analysis reveals that a specimen from Panama identified by Bell through genitalia inspection (slide G1366) as Pellicia tyana toza Evans, 1953 (type locality in Colombia, Magdalena Valley), with Pellicia (Hemipteris) tyana Plötz, 1882 (type locality in Brazil, likely São Paulo, lectotype sequenced as NVG-15032D11), which Evans (1953) misidentified, and instead are closely related to Pellicia (Hemipteris) arina Evans, 1953 (type locality in Mexico: Veracruz, Atoyac) being genetically differentiated from it at the species level ( Fig. 90). Therefore, we propose that Pellicia (Hemipteris) toza Evans, 1953 , stat. nov. is a species distinct from Pellicia (Hemipteris) tyana Plötz, 1882 .