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Nymphalidae 77a0833 – 4441   Junonia nigrosuffusa Barnes & McDunnough, 1916

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Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: • Junonia nigrosuffusa Barnes & McDunnough, 1916 • Junonia melanina Hall, 1919 Taxonomic Notes: Junonia nigrosuffusa Barnes & McDunnough, 1916, originally described as a subspecies of coenia and later treated as a full species in Hafernik (1982) and in Hodges et al. (1983) (Checklist) and later synonymized with 4442 J. evarete (Cramer, 1779), is returned to full species status in Hafernik (1982) with further confirmation in Cong et al. (2020).

References

Barnes, W.M. & J.H. McDunnough, 1916. Some new races and species of North American Lepidoptera. The Canadian Entomologist, 48: 222. Cong, Q., J. Zhang, J. Shen, X. Cao, C. Brévignon, N.V. Grishin, 2020. Speciation in North American Junonia from a genomic perspective. Systematic Entomology, 45(4): 1-35. Species Page at the Butterflies of America

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