Lon poa ( Evans, 1955 ) Zhang & Cong & Shen & Song & Grishin, 2023

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 : 54

Lon vitellina ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) and Lon poa ( Evans, 1955) are species distinct from Lon melane (W. H. Edwards, 1869)

Genomic trees reveal that Cobalus vitellina Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 ( type locality in Mexico: Oaxaca) and Paratrytone melane poa Evans, 1955 ( type locality Costa Rica: Mount Poás), currently treated as subspecies of Lon melane (W. H. Edwards, 1869) ( type locality in USA: California, likely San Francisco Bay area), are genetically differentiated from it at the species level ( Fig. 54), e.g., Fst / Gmin /COI barcode difference from L. melane of 0.57/0.002/3.2% (21 bp) for C. vitellina and 0.66/0.001/2.3% (15 bp) for P. melane poa . Therefore, we propose that Lon vitellina ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) , stat. rest. and Lon poa ( Evans, 1955) , stat. nov. are species distinct from Lon melane (W. H. Edwards, 1869) .