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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Most topological insulators (TIs) discovered today in spinful systems can be transformed from topological semimetals (TSMs) with vanishing bulk gap via introducing the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which manifests the intrinsic links between the gapped topological insulator phases and the gapless TSMs. Recently, we have discovered a family of TSMs in time-reversal invariant <jats:italic>spinless</jats:italic> systems, which host butterfly-like nodal-lines (NLs) consisting of a pair of identical concentric intersecting coplanar ellipses (CICE). In this Communication, we unveil the intrinsic link between this exotic class of nodal-line semimetals (NLSMs) and a <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$${{\mathbb{Z}}}_{4}$$</jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
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