Pintara Evans, 1932

Li, Meng, Lu, Ke, Cui, Ying, Liu, Haiwei, Yang, Jinchu, Xue, Guoxi & Wang, Qiuling, 2024, Molecular data and morphological characters clarify the taxonomic status of Pintara heringi pieridoides (Liu & Gu, 1994) (Hesperiidae, Pyrginae), Zootaxa 5419 (1), pp. 145-150 : 147

Pintara Evans, 1932

Pintara Evans, 1932: 305 , 338. Type species: Plesioneura pinwilli Butler, 1879 ; Evans 1949: 126; Devyatkin 1998: 295; Yuan et al. 2015: 236; Wu & Hsu 2017: 1329.

Albiphasma Huang, Chiba, Wang & Fan, 2016: 148 . Type species: Abraximorpha heringi Mell, 1922 ; Wu & Hsu 2017: 1329; Shen et al. 2022: 665; Zhang et al. 2022: 23. syn. nov.

The authors of the genus Albiphasma compared the venation of heringi with that of Abraximorpha dividii in order to prove the two taxa belong to different genera. However, they did not take any members of Pintara into the comparison of venation, although the close relationship of Albiphasma and Pintara had been indicated by both morphological similarities and molecular evidence ( Huang et al. 2016: 148). Actually, it can be observed from their paper that the venation of pinwilli ( Huang et al. 2016: 149, fig. 12) is same as that of heringi ( Huang et al. 2016: 152, fig. 32). Moreover, the hair tuft on the hind tibiae ( Huang et al. 2016: 149, fig. 13, 15) and the male genitalia ( Huang et al. 2016: 148; 150, figs. 16–20; 151, figs. 27–31) of pinwilli and heringi resemble one another. Therefore, considering the results of molecular analysis and morphological comparison, we propose Albiphasma to be a synonym of Pintara .