Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002 is a subgenus of Aricoris Westwood, 1851

Currently treated as a genus, Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002 (type species Lemonias albinus C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861) is phenotypically similar (especially in wing shape) to the subgenus Arichlosyne subgen. n. (type species Apodemia ochracea Mengel, 1902) of Aricoris Westwood, 1851 (type species Aricoris tisiphone Westwood, 1851, which is a junior subjective synonym of Erycina tutana Godart, [1824]), and these genus group taxa are differentiated genetically from each other at the subgenus level (Fig. 23 purple); e.g., their COI barcodes differ by 8.5% (56 bp) ( Ariconias and Aricoris) and 8.7% (57 bp) ( Ariconias and Arichlosyne). Therefore, we propose that Ariconias J. Hall & Harvey, 2002 stat. nov. is a subgenus of Aricoris Westwood, 1851 .