ESU S. vandalusica (Lederer, 1853)
       
Synonyms
[ORIG] Thecla spini var. vandalusica Lederer, 1853. Verh. zool.-bot. Ver. Wien 2 (Abhandl.): 19, 34.  
    TL: Andalusia (S Spain).
[JS] Strymon spini race bofilli Sagarra, 1924. Butll. Inst. Catal. Hist. nat. (2)4(9): 200.  
    TL: Albarracin (Aragón, Spain).
[JS] Strymon spini race leonensis Manley, 1970. In: Manley & Allcard, Field Guide Butt. Burn. Spain: 114, pl. 35, fig. 29.  
    TL: Riaño (León prov., N Spain).
Notes  
(1) The taxon vandalusica is here regarded as a potential Evolutionarily Significant Unit (ESU), based on the marked genetic divergence identified by Leonardo Dapporto et al. (2022) in the section dealing with S. spini, between Spanish populations and those occurring elsewhere in Europe.
Confirmation of this status, however, will require further integrative research combining ecological and morphological analyses with higher-resolution genomic approaches, preferably based on whole-genome data.		  
Bibliography  
Lederer J. 1853.
Versuch, die europäischen Lepidopicren (einschliessig der ihrem Habitus nach noch zur europäischen Fauna gehörigen Arten Labradors, der asiatischen Türkei und des asiatischen Russlands) in möglichst natürliche Reihenfolge zu stellen, nebst Bemerkungen zu einigen Familien und Arten. I. Abtheilung: Die Rhopaloceren.
Verhandlungen des zoologisch-botanischen Vereins in Wien 2(Abhandlungen): 14-54. (url)
  
  New taxon: Thecla spini vandalusica.  
   
Manley W. B. L. & Allcard H. G.. 1970.
A Field Guide to the Butterflies and Burnets of Spain. Hampton : E.W. Classey Ltd. (Ed.). pp. 1-192, pl. 1-40, [1]. ISBN 0-900484-39-1 (url partim)
  
  New taxon:  Strymon spini leonensis.  
   
Sagarra I. de - i de Castellarnau. 1924.
Noves formes de Lepidòpters Ibérics.
Butlletí de la Institució Catalana d'Història Natural (2)4(9): 198-204. (url)
  
  New taxon:  Strymon spini bofilli.  
Reference publications  

Dapporto L., Menchetti M., Vodă R., Corbella C., Cuvelier S., Djemadi I., Gascoigne-Pees M., Hinojosa J., Lam N., Serracanta M., Talavera G., Dincă V. & Vila. R. 2022.
The Atlas of mitochondrial genetic diversity for Western Palearctic butterflies.
Global Ecology and Biogeography 31(11): 2184-2190. doi.org/10.1111/geb.13579 – Appendix S1: 1-532. (url)

  
 
Archives of Western Palearctic Lepidoptera
Editors-in-Chief: Michel Taymans & Sylvain Cuvelier