Balonca F. Moore, 1901 is a valid subgenus of Dodona Hewitson, 1861

Genomic analysis of Dodona Hewitson, 1861 (type species Melitaea durga Kollar, 1844) reveals that the genus partitions into four prominent clades genetically differentiated at the subgenus level (Fig. 5). One of these clades corresponds to Balonca F. Moore, 1901 (type species Dodona deodata Hewitson, 1876), currently regarded as a junior subjective synonym of Dodona . Dodona and Balonca type species differ by 6.8% (45 bp) in their COI barcodes. Therefore, we propose to treat Balonca F. Moore, 1901, stat. nov. as a subgenus of Dodona Hewitson, 1861. The two other clades do not include type species of any available genus group names and, therefore, correspond to the new subgenera described below.