We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Brintesia circe (Great Banded Grayling; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 583.12 megabases and 533.70 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (99.54%) is scaffolded into 30 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the W and Z sex chromosomes. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.2 kilobases. This work is part of Project Psyche, a collaborative programme generating genomes for European butterflies and moths.
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