Pierinae

Braby, Michael F., 2005, Provisional checklist of genera of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 832, pp. 1-16 : 12

Pierinae : Aporiini

In a revision of the Afrotropical genus Mylothris Hübner, Talbot (1944) treated the monotypic Pseudomylothris Neustetter (with type species leonora Krüger ), tentatively treated as a subgenus by Klots (1933), as a distinct genus allied to Mylothris and Delias Hübner , but this was not followed by Ackery et al. (1995), who regarded Pseudomylothris as a synonym of Mylothris .

Talbot (1928­37) published a detailed revision of the speciose Indo­Australian genus Delias and proposed 20 species­groups. One of these groups, the hyparete species­group, was initially designated formal taxonomic rank, being placed in the subgenus Piccarda Grote , a synonym of Cathaemia Hübner , but Talbot (1928­37: 494) later abandoned that proposal. Müller (1999; 2001) revised the systematics of Leuciacria Rothschild & Jordan, although did not propose any changes at the generic or subgeneric level.

Reissinger (1972) divided the diverse Neotropical genus Catasticta Butler into five subgenera ( Catasticta, Archonoia Reissinger, Pierinoia Reissinger , Leodontoia Reissinger , Hesperochoia Reissinger ), largely on the basis of differences in the underside pattern of the hind wing. Three of these names (Pierinoia Reissinger, Leodontoia Reissinger, Hes ­ perochoia Reissinger) are nomenclaturally unavailable under the ICZN ( Lamas 2005). Eitschberger and Racheli (1998) subsequently recognised three genera ( Catasticta, Leod ­ ontoia Eitschberger & Racheli, Hesperochoia Eitschberger & Racheli ), treating Archonoia Reissinger as a subgenus of Catasticta . Lamas and Bollino (2004: 3), however, maintained all species under the single genus Catasticta , noting that “though bowing to tradition in regarding Catasticta as a monophyletic species assemblage, we consider premature and misleading to divide it into either subgenera or separate genera.” A recent molecular study of the Aporiini (Braby et al., unpublished data), however, indicated that Catasticta is paraphyletic.

Klots (1933: 173) placed two species in the Neotropical taxon Charonias Röber , which he treated as a subgenus of Archonias Hübner according to minor differences in wing venation, shape and pattern. Klots pointed out that, compared to Archonias (Archonias) , “The characters for Charonias are slight, and hardly sufficient to validate its subgeneric rank, much less a generic status.” Lamas (2005), however, provisionally treated Charonias as a distinct genus and closely allied to the monobasic Archonias (with type species brassolis Fabricius ).