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Phylogenetic relationships of butterflies of the tribe Acraeini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) and the evolution of host plant use by Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão; Niklas Wahlberg; Ronaldo Bastos Francini; Ana Maria L. Azeredo-Espin; Keith S. Brown Jr.; Márlon Paluch; David C. Lees; André V.L. Freitas is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
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The tribe Acraeini (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) is believed to comprise between one and seven genera, with the greatest diversity in Africa. The genera Abananote, Altinote, and Actinote (s. str.) are distributed in the Neotropics, while the genera Acraea, Bematistes, Miyana, and Pardopsis have a Palaeotropical distribution. The monotypic Pardopsis use herbaceous plants of the family Violaceae, Acraea and Bematistes feed selectively on plants with cyanoglycosides belonging to many plant families, but preferentially to Passifloraceae, and all Neotropical species with a known life cycle feed on Asteraceae only. Here, a molecular phylogeny is proposed for the butterflies of the tribe Acraeini based on sequences of COI, EF-1alpha and wgl. Both Maximum Parsimony and Bayesian analyses showed that the tribe is monophyletic, once the genus Pardopsis is excluded, since it appears to be related to Argynnini. The existing genus Acraea is a paraphyletic group with regard to the South American genera, and the species of Acraea belonging to the group of "Old World Actinote" is the sister group of the Neotropical genera. The monophyly of South American clade is strongly supported, suggesting a sing
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- Author
- Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão; Niklas Wahlberg; Ronaldo Bastos Francini; Ana Maria L. Azeredo-Espin; Keith S. Brown Jr.; Márlon Paluch; David C. Lees; André V.L. Freitas
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1055-7903)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)