Gorgythion beggoides Schaus, 1902

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 : 35

Gorgythion beggoides Schaus, 1902 is a junior subjective synonym of Gorgythion begga begga (Prittwitz, 1868) , not of Gorgythion plautia (Möschler, 1877)

Gorgythion beggoides Schaus, 1902 ( type locality in Trinidad) ( Fig. 34 orange) currently treated as a junior subjective synonym of Gorgythion plautia (Möschler, 1877) ( type locality in Suriname) ( Fig. 34 cyan) is not monophyletic with it and is instead placed within specimens of Gorgythion begga (Prittwitz, 1868) ( type locality in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro) ( Fig. 34 blue). Hence, we propose that G. beggoides and G. begga are conspecific. Due to extensive expression of white scaling around the tornus on the ventral hindwing, G. beggoides belongs to the nominotypical subspecies and not to Gorgythion begga pyralina (Möschler, 1877) ( type locality in Suriname). Therefore, we propose that Gorgythion beggoides Schaus, 1902 is a junior subjective synonym of Gorgythion begga begga (Prittwitz, 1868) , not of Gorgythion plautia (Möschler, 1877) .