Argynnis zerene atossa W. H. Edwards, 1890

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Opler, Paul A. & Grishin, Nick V., 2020, Genomic evidence suggests further changes of butterfly names, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 8 (7), pp. 1-41 : 19

Argynnis zerene atossa W. H. Edwards, 1890 , new combination, is not a subspecies of Argynnis adiaste W. H. Edwards, 1864

Described as a species Argynnis atossa W. H. Edwards, 1890 (type locality USA: California, Kern Co. ), this likely extinct butterfly was placed as a subspecies of Argynnis adiaste W. H. Edwards, 1864 (type locality USA: California, Santa Cruz Co. ) due to its prominent wing pattern similarities, in particular, the washed out ventral hindwing devoid of silvery spots and reduced black markings above, especially on its hindwing. To our surprise, none of the trees (concatenated protein-coding regions of the entire nuclear