A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America

Glassberg, Jeffrey

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“…We recorded all individuals seen or caught during a four-hour intensive search per greenspace. Following capture, we identified most individuals in the field with the aid of specialized local field guides [48,49]. We collected the unidentified specimens and deposited them in the IEXA entomological collection after their identification.…”

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City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

MacGregor-Fors

Escobar

Rueda‐Hernández

et al. 2016

Forests

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Urbanization poses important environmental, social, and ecological pressures, representing a major threat to biodiversity. However, urban areas are highly heterogeneous, with some greenspaces (e.g., urban forests, parks, private gardens) providing resources and a refuge for wildlife communities. In this study we surveyed 10 taxonomic groups to assess their species richness and composition in six greenspaces that differ in size, location, management, and human activities. Species richness differed among taxonomic groups, but not all differed statistically among the studied greenspaces (i.e., sac fungi, bats). Plants, basidiomycetous and sac fungi, and birds showed intermediate assemblage composition similarity (<54%). The composition of assemblages of copro-necrophagous beetles, grasshoppers, amphibians, and bats was related to the specific traits of greenspaces, mainly size and location. The species richness contribution of each greenspace considering all studied taxonomic groups was highest in the largest greenspace that is located at the southeastern border of the city, while the lowest contribution was recorded in the smallest ones, all of them closer to the city's center. Our results shed some light on the way in which different taxonomic groups respond to an array of neotropical urban greenspaces, providing an important basis for future studies.

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City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

MacGregor-Fors

Escobar

Rueda‐Hernández

et al. 2016

Forests

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“…Valid names were derived from a global checklist (Lamas, 2004) and were augmented via assembly of synonymies from the Lepidoptera and other life forms database (Funet (Savela, 2020)) and Wikipedia (Wikipedia, 2020) using the R package taxotools (Barve, 2020). The augmented master list was used to normalize names from resources that contained expert-assessed maps and assembled names used in field guide resources (Brock and Kaufman, 2003;Glassberg, 2018). Once names were normalized to a consistent, accepted name, we used those names and associated synonyms to (1) re-assign normalized names to those digitized species range maps (see below for range map assembly) where normalization was required and (2) search GenBank and other key resources for matching genetic data to construct a North America-specific butterfly phylogeny.…”

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Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America

et al. 2021

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Broad-scale, quantitative assessments of insect biodiversity and the factors shaping it remain particularly poorly explored. Here we undertook a spatial phylogenetic analysis of North American butterflies to test whether climate stability and temperature gradients have shaped their diversity and endemism. We also performed the first quantitative comparisons of spatial phylogenetic patterns between butterflies and flowering plants. We expected concordance between the two groups based on shared historical environmental drivers and presumed strong butterfly-host plant specializations. We instead found that biodiversity patterns in butterflies are strikingly different from flowering plants, especially warm deserts. In particular, butterflies show different patterns of phylogenetic clustering compared with flowering plants, suggesting differences in habitat conservation between the two groups. These results suggest that shared biogeographic histories and trophic associations do not necessarily assure similar diversity outcomes. The work has applied value in conservation planning, documenting warm deserts as a North American butterfly biodiversity hotspot.

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“…Called “Scintillants”, these small reddish-brown above and mostly yellow below butterflies are marked with several rows of metallic spots (Glassberg, 2007; Hall and Harveyb, 2002; McAlpine, 1971). Genus Calephelis is distributed throughout the Americas and is mostly Neotropical, but several species reach into the US, with three being eastern USA endemics ( C. virginiensis , C. borealis and C. muticum ) (McAlpine, 1971; Scott, 1986).…”

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The first complete genomes of Metalmarks and the classification of butterfly families

Cong

Shen

et al. 2017

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Sequencing complete genomes of all major phylogenetic groups of organisms opens unprecedented opportunities to study evolution and genetics. We report draft genomes of Calephelis nemesis and Calephelis virginiensis, representatives of the family Riodinidae. They complete the genomic coverage of butterflies at the family level. At 809 and 855 Mbp, respectively, they become the largest available Lepidoptera genomes. Comparison of butterfly genomes shows that the divergence between Riodinidae and Lycaenidae dates to the time when other families started to diverge into subfamilies. Thus, Riodinidae may be considered a subfamily of Lycaenidae. Calephelis species exhibit unique gene expansions in actin-disassembling factor, cofilin, and chitinase. The functional implications of these gene expansions are not clear, but they may aid molting of caterpillars covered in extensive setae. The two Calephelis species diverged about 5 million years ago and they differ in proteins involved in metabolism, circadian clock, regulation of development, and immune responses.

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A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America

Cited by 16 publications

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City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

City “Green” Contributions: The Role of Urban Greenspaces as Reservoirs for Biodiversity

Spatial phylogenetics of butterflies in relation to environmental drivers and angiosperm diversity across North America

The first complete genomes of Metalmarks and the classification of butterfly families

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