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From what I understand, I think godefroyae has purple dots on the underside while the other has solid purple. Is it a reliable trait? good question but you need to see a lot more plants to come to the conclusion/answer. Modern mixed breeds may play a trick--just another possibility but I am no breeder or trained taxonomist.

Others may say the pure white pouch is not a reliable trait either--some identified leucochilum do have minor spots on the pouch. If you identify/judge a leucochilum/(or classify any species) just based on the pure white pouch(which I do prefer), that might be too shallow. You guys are so focused on the pure white pouch...but there must be a lot more unique differences for it to be a separate species. I would start looking for those differences... take a look at the original description if you can and the follow-up population after its discovery. It will take some time to do that... worth the effort? probably not, unless you truly are into taxonomy.

I would not change the tag just because of some discussions on forums but call whatever you want if you can't agree upon it. Just my two cents.

Just being sarcastic, Should we call those with almost solid black/dark purple dorsal a separate species? Leslie, give yours a new species name