Corresponding author: Valentina Todisco (
Academic editor: Matthias Glaubrecht
A change in the authorship of this paper became necessary only recently after the paper was released. The corrected order of authorship should be as follows:
Valentina Todisco1, Vazrick Nazari2, Donatella Cesaroni3, Valerio Sbordoni3
The acknowledgements section also needs to be amended as follows:
This study was supported in the framework of the SHIBU project (DNA barcoding, molecular systematics and evolution of Sino-Himalayan butterflies) funded by Tor Vergata University grants to Valerio Sbordoni and by grants to Paul D.N. Hebert from NSERC and from the Government of Canada through Genome Canada and the Ontario Genomics Institute in support of the International Barcode of Life Project. We are extremely grateful to Niklas Wahlberg for providing valuable insights in the early stages of this study, to Vadim Tshikolovets for providing identification materials, to Massimo Di Rao and Marco Lucarelli for the genitalia preparations and to Prof. R.I. Vane-Wright, Rodolphe Rougerie and an anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments.