Provisional checklist of genera of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Author Braby, Michael F. text Zootaxa 2005 832 1 16 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.170669 cc432084-63d9-4ab2-a3aa-8e2efc7b740a 1175­5326 170669 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 A recent molecular study of the Aporiini (Braby et al ., unpublished data), however, indicated that Catasticta is paraphyletic.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 ).