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- Title
Phylogeny of the riodinid butterfly subtribe Theopeina (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Nymphidiini).
- Authors
Hall, Jason P
- Abstract
Abstract The almost exclusively Neotropical butterfly family Riodinidae is poorly represented in both ecological and systematic studies of Lepidoptera. A comparative morphological study of all seventy-five species in subtribe Theopeina (tribe Nymphidiini) yielded 104 characters, predominantly from wing pattern, male and female genitalia, and abdominal structures. All morphological characters and adults representing the range of wing pattern variation are illustrated. Phylogenetic analysis of the data produced a large number of most parsimonious cladograms, but the strict consensus of these, both when using equal weights and after successive weighting, is well resolved and the majority of terminal clades have high character and branch support. Theopeina is found to consist of five monophyletic genera, Protonymphidia , Archaeonympha , Calicosama , Behemothia and Theope (= Parnes and Dinoplotis ), with the largest genus Theope containing thirteen monophyletic species groups, which are delineated to facilitate a discussion of broad evolutionary patterns in this morphologically diverse subtribe.
- Subjects
PHYLOGENY; RIODINIDAE; BUTTERFLIES
- Publication
Systematic Entomology, 2002, Vol 27, Issue 2, p139
- ISSN
0307-6970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-3113.2002.00171.x