
@article {129156,
	title = {A global phylogeny of butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins.},
	journal = {Nat Ecol Evol},
	year = {2023},
	month = {2023 May 15},
	abstract = {<p>Butterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking. We sequenced 391 genes from nearly 2,300 butterfly species, sampled from 90 countries and 28 specimen collections, to reconstruct a new phylogenomic tree of butterflies representing 92\% of all genera. Our phylogeny has strong support for nearly all nodes and demonstrates that at least 36 butterfly tribes require reclassification. Divergence time analyses imply an origin ~100 million years ago for butterflies and indicate that all but one family were present before the K/Pg extinction event. We aggregated larval host datasets and global distribution records and found that butterflies are likely to have first fed on Fabaceae and originated in what is now the Americas. Soon after the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum, butterflies crossed Beringia and diversified in the Palaeotropics. Our results also reveal that most butterfly species are specialists that feed on only one larval host plant family. However, generalist butterflies that consume two or more plant families usually feed on closely related plants.</p>
},
	issn = {2397-334X},
	doi = {10.1038/s41559-023-02041-9},
	author = {Kawahara, Akito Y and Storer, Caroline and Carvalho, Ana Paula S and Plotkin, David M and Condamine, Fabien L and Braga, Mariana P and Ellis, Emily A and St Laurent, Ryan A and Li, Xuankun and Barve, Vijay and Cai, Liming and Earl, Chandra and Frandsen, Paul B and Owens, Hannah L and Valencia-Montoya, Wendy A and Aduse-Poku, Kwaku and Toussaint, Emmanuel F A and Dexter, Kelly M and Doleck, Tenzing and Markee, Amanda and Messcher, Rebeccah and Nguyen, Y-Lan and Badon, Jade Aster T and Ben{\'\i}tez, Hugo A and Braby, Michael F and Buenavente, Perry A C and Chan, Wei-Ping and Collins, Steve C and Rabideau Childers, Richard A and Dankowicz, Even and Eastwood, Rod and Fric, Zdenek F and Gott, Riley J and Hall, Jason P W and Hallwachs, Winnie and Hardy, Nate B and Sipe, Rachel L Hawkins and Heath, Alan and Hinolan, Jomar D and Homziak, Nicholas T and Hsu, Yu-Feng and Inayoshi, Yutaka and Itliong, Micael G A and Janzen, Daniel H and Kitching, Ian J and Kunte, Krushnamegh and Lamas, Gerardo and Landis, Michael J and Larsen, Elise A and Larsen, Torben B and Leong, Jing V and Lukhtanov, Vladimir and Maier, Crystal A and Martinez, Jose I and Martins, Dino J and Maruyama, Kiyoshi and Maunsell, Sarah C and Mega, Nicol{\'a}s Oliveira and Monastyrskii, Alexander and Morais, Ana B B and M{\"u}ller, Chris J and Naive, Mark Arcebal K and Nielsen, Gregory and Padr{\'o}n, Pablo Sebasti{\'a}n and Peggie, Djunijanti and Romanowski, Helena Piccoli and S{\'a}fi{\'a}n, Szabolcs and Saito, Motoki and Schr{\"o}der, Stefan and Shirey, Vaughn and Soltis, Doug and Soltis, Pamela and Sourakov, Andrei and Talavera, Gerard and Vila, Roger and Vlasanek, Petr and Wang, Houshuai and Warren, Andrew D and Willmott, Keith R and Yago, Masaya and Jetz, Walter and Jarzyna, Marta A and Breinholt, Jesse W and Espeland, Marianne and Ries, Leslie and Guralnick, Robert P and Pierce, Naomi E and Lohman, David J}
}
@article {994,
	title = {Comparative molecular species delimitation in the charismatic Nawab butterflies (Nymphalidae, Charaxinae, Polyura).},
	journal = {Mol Phylogenet Evol},
	volume = {91},
	year = {2015},
	month = {2015 Oct},
	pages = {194-209},
	abstract = {<p>The charismatic tropical Polyura Nawab butterflies are distributed across twelve biodiversity hotspots in the Indomalayan/Australasian archipelago. In this study, we tested an array of species delimitation methods and compared the results to existing morphology-based taxonomy. We sequenced two mitochondrial and two nuclear gene fragments to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships within Polyura using both Bayesian inference and maximum likelihood. Based on this phylogenetic framework, we used the recently introduced bGMYC, BPP and PTP methods to investigate species boundaries. Based on our results, we describe two new species Polyura paulettae Toussaint sp. n. and Polyura smilesi Toussaint sp. n., propose one synonym, and five populations are raised to species status. Most of the newly recognized species are single-island endemics likely resulting from the recent highly complex geological history of the Indomalayan-Australasian archipelago. Surprisingly, we also find two newly recognized species in the Indomalayan region where additional biotic or abiotic factors have fostered speciation. Species delimitation methods were largely congruent and succeeded to cross-validate most extant morphological species. PTP and BPP seem to yield more consistent and robust estimations of species boundaries with respect to morphological characters while bGMYC delivered contrasting results depending on the different gene trees considered. Our findings demonstrate the efficiency of comparative approaches using molecular species delimitation methods on empirical data. They also pave the way for the investigation of less well-known groups to unveil patterns of species richness and catalogue Earth{\textquoteright}s concealed, therefore unappreciated diversity.</p>
},
	issn = {1095-9513},
	doi = {10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.015},
	author = {Toussaint, Emmanuel F A and Morini{\`e}re, J{\'e}r{\^o}me and M{\"u}ller, Chris J and Kunte, Krushnamegh and Turlin, Bernard and Axel Hausmann and Balke, Michael}
}
