Problema Skinner & R. Williams, 1924

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2019, Changes to North American butterfly names, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 8 (2), pp. 1-12 : 10

Problema Skinner & R. Williams, 1924 is a subgenus of Atrytone Scudder, 1872

Currently monotypic genus Atrytone Scudder, 1872 (type species Hesperia iowa Scudder, 1868) is sister to Problema Skinner & R. Williams, 1924 (type genus Pamphila byssus W. H. Edwards, 1880), a genus of two species, including also Hesperia bulenta Boisduval & Le Conte, [1837]. All three species are close in their genomic sequences ( Fig. 15 ). Their genetic divergence is more consistent with them being congeners. Therefore, we treat Problema as a subgenus of Atrytone to form new or revised combinations Atrytone byssus and Atrytone bulenta.

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Fig. 15. Atrytone and Problema.