Chrysoritis lysander (Pennington, 1962) Heath, 2023

Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 11-28 : 19-20

Poecilmitis lysander Pennington 1962 . Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Kamieskroon, Namaqualand Distr. MPT: low, mid and submontane gullies. Host ant: unrecorded. Material from this study is from Kamiesberg and its foothills.

Taxonomy: Monophyletic in the COI tree (100% bootstrap). Sample specimens from Kamieskroon, formerly treated as C. pan lysander , are morphologically similar to C. azurius . However its closest taxon in the COI tree is not C. azurius but a C. aridimontis (sample AH07C 166 in mt clade 1), 12 mutational steps away in the network. Despite resembling C. azurius , the two species are well separated phylogenetically and geographically. Material from the Kamiesberg region, formerly treated as C. pan lysander , is returned to species status as Chrysoritis lysander stat. rev. Also, material taken from 2 km north of Eksteenfontein, Richtersveld and recently from near Oranjemund, southern Namibia (S. Braine) may also be this species. Conservation status: LC.

Chrysoritis azurius (Swanepoel 1975) . Poecilmitis azurius Swanepoel 1975 . Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Roggeveld Mts. MPT: submontane gullies. Host ant: Crem. peringueyi and Crem. melanogaster . Populations occurring in the Sutherland district, Middelpos, Nieuwoudtville, and Keiskie Road (20 km S of Calvinia) are deemed C. azurius . Material originally described as lysander hantamsbergae (Dickson) from near the summit of the Hantamsberg, Calvinia (not included in the study) may also answer to this taxon.

Taxonomy: This species is monophyletic in the COI tree (96%). Wing facies of C. lysander (n = 2) matches that of C. azurius (n = 9) but the network and COI phylogeny shows them to be distinct. Conservation status: LC.

Chrysoritis trimeni (Riley 1938) . Poecilmitis thysbe