Pistoria Hemming, 1964

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2023, Genomic analysis reveals new species and subspecies of butterflies, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (6), pp. 1-63 : 26

Pistoria Hemming, 1964 is a junior subjective synonym of Caleta Fruhstorfer, 1922

Adding DNA segments of Mambara nigropunctata Bethune-Baker, 1908 ( type locality in Papua New Guinea, biosample SAMN18674175), the type species of currently valid genus Pistoria Hemming, 1964 , taken from the alignment provided in Kawahara et al. (2023) ( Fig. 23 red) to our genomic datasets of its relatives, we find that Pistoria nigropunctata originates within Caleta Fruhstorfer, 1922 ( type species Lycaena caleta Hewitson, 1876 ), rendering it paraphyletic. To restore the monophyly, due to the genetic closeness of Pistoria nigropunctata and Caleta caleta (COI barcode difference of 5.9%, 39 bp), we propose that Pistoria Hemming, 1964 , syn. nov. is a junior subjective synonym of Caleta Fruhstorfer, 1922 .