Erebia ( Erebia ) pawloskii sajana Staudinger, 1894

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui, Song, Leina & Grishin, Nick V., 2025, Advancing butterfly systematics through genomic analysis, The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 12 (5), pp. 1-201 : 9

Erebia ( Erebia) pawloskii sajana Staudinger, 1894 , stat. rest. is a valid subspecies

At times, synonymized with Erebia ( Erebia) pawloskii pawloskii Ménétriés, 1859 ( type locality in Russia: Sakha), Erebia pawlowskyi [sic] var. sajana Staudinger, 1894 ( type locality in Russia: Buryatia, East Sayan) forms a distinct clade in both genomic trees ( Fig. 3 purple) genetically differentiated from others at the subspecies level (e.g., Fig. 3 purple vs. blue). Therefore, we treat Erebia ( Erebia) pawloskii sajana Staudinger, 1894 , stat. rest. as a valid subspecies, not a synonym of E. pawloskii pawloskii .

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Fig. 3. Phylogenetic trees of selected Erebia (Erebia) species constructed from protein-coding regions in: a) the nuclear genome (autosomes), based on 415,959 positions, and b) the mitochondrial genome. Different species and subspecies are colored differently: E. theano (brown), E. stubbendorfii (olive), E. pawloskii sajana stat. rest. (purple), E. pawloskii pawloskii (blue), E. pawloskii bilibinia (magenta), E. pawloskii alaskensis (green), E. pawloskii canadensis (dark blue), E. pawloskii ethela W. H. Edwards, 1891 (cyan), and E. demmia stat. nov. (red). Ultrafast bootstrap (Minh et al. 2013) values are shown at nodes. Gaps in terminal branches indicate that a segment of a tree was cut out to reduce its horizontal dimension (to allow an increase in the font size), i.e., a branch with a gap is longer than shown.