Arianna, Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2024

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2024, Taxonomic advances driven by the genomic analysis of butterflies, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (7), pp. 1-43 : 29

Arianna Bálint, 2022 is a subgenus of Plebejus Kluk, 1780

Originally proposed as a genus, Arianna Bálint, 2022 ( type species Lycaena eversmanni H. C. Lang, 1884 ) originates within Plebejus Kluk, 1780 ( type species Papilio argus Linnaeus, 1758 ) rendering it polyphyletic ( Fig. 22). Willing to neither split Plebejus into several genera nor synonymize Arianna , we propose to treat Arianna Bálint, 2022, stat. nov. as a subgenus of Plebejus Kluk, 1780 . Some other related genera are likely to become subgenera of Plebejus after their genomic data are analyzed.