Chrysoritis (Poecilmitis) daphne, Dickson 1975: 227

Heath, Alan, 2023, Chrysoritis Butler (Papilionoidea: Lycaenidae: Aphnaeinae) - Part III: An integrative taxonomic revision, Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 11-28 : 23

(Poecilmitis) daphne Dickson 1975: 227 . Holotype: NHM, London. Type locality: Kammanassie Mts. and only known from this one locality. MPT: gullies, ledges and depressions on montane slopes. Host ant: Crem. amabilis . This species is sister to C. plutus in the COI tree Conservation status: LC – Rare.

Taxonomy: This species (n = 2) groups with C. endymion (n = 1) in the COI tree (98%). In the COI tree, a sample of C. rileyi (C010) groups with the single C. endymion sample in 84% of bootstrap trees, thus C. endymion appears to render C. rileyi paraphyletic but more samples are needed to confirm this. In the COI network, C. rileyi sample C010 is closer to C. endymion than to its conspecific (only a single nucleotide change between the two taxa). However, these two taxa differ in several ways: C. endymion is a high elevation species whilst C. rileyi is at low elevations in the Chrysoritis plutus (Pennington 1967) . Poecilmitis plutus Pennington 1967: 4 . Holotype: Ditsong NM. Type locality: Sevenweekspoort, Zwartberg Mts. MPT: hilltops. Host ant: Crem. peringueyi . Juvenile stages: illustrated in Heath & Pringle (2007: Pl. 3); C. plutus (n = 2) is sister to C. daphne in the COI tree. Conservation status: LC.

Chrysoritis palmus [Stoll 1781]. Papilio palmus Stoll