Urbanus (Urbanoides) elmina Evans, 1952

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2025, Update to: Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (6), pp. 1-36 : 17

Urbanus (Urbanoides) elmina Evans, 1952 is confirmed from Colombia

In the original description of Urbanus (Urbanoides) elma Grishin, 2025 (type locality in Venezuela: Mérida) we provided a phylogenetic tree showing specimens of Urbanus (Urbanoides) elmina Evans, 1952 (type locality in Ecuador: Rio Pastaza) from Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina ( Zhang et al. 2025a). The only specimen from Colombia (without further locality details) was the paratype of U. elma . To date, we have sequenced specimens of U. elmina from additional localities in Ecuador and also from western Colombia (Valle del Cauca and Cauca Departments), thus confirming this species from Colombia ( Fig. 11). While we have not found more specimens of U. elma , we stumbled upon a specimen of a new species, which is described next.