Linnaeus's butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)

Honey, Martin R.

doi:10.1006/zjls.2001.0265

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“…We have shown that this method is reliable and robust when used to genotype insect specimens collected at least as far back as the early 19th century and possibly earlier. The oldest preserved insect collections still extant are the James Petiver (1665–1718), Hans Sloane (1660–1735) and Joseph Banks (1743–1820) collections at the Natural History Museum, London (Stearns, ; Hawkins, ; Seaward, ), the Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) collection at the Linnean Society of London (Tanner, ; Honey & Scoble, ), the Kilian Stobaeus (1690–1742) collection at the Biological Museum of Lund University and the Queen Ludovica Ulrica (1720–1782) collection at the Evolution Museum of Uppsala University in Sweden (Kim & Lindroth, ; Honey & Scoble, ). Yet, preserved insect material from the 17th and even most of the 18th century is very scarce (Lalonde & Marcus, ).…”

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How old can we go? Evaluating the age limit for effective DNA recovery from historical insect specimens

Lalonde

Marcus

2019

Systematic Entomology

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Historical museum specimens are valuable for exploring population genetics and evolutionary questions because they can provide snapshots of morphological and genetic characteristics from populations over space and time. Unfortunately, DNA found in older museum specimens is frequently degraded, so obtaining genotypes from many individual samples necessary for rigorous molecular population genetic studies is challenging. Previous studies have varied greatly in their success at obtaining genotypes from older preserved insect material. Many well-intentioned collection curators have used research results showing poor preservation of DNA preserved in museum specimens to inform curatorial best practices, in some cases choosing not to allow DNA extraction by destructive sampling because, in their estimation, the likelihood of success would be low. Recent methodological advances in DNA extraction, amplification, and genotyping have allowed some researchers to include mid-19th century samples in molecular genetic analyses. Here we present a robust, high-throughput, and low-cost DNA extraction and genotyping protocol for historical insect specimens employing restriction digests of PCR products followed by high sensitivity electrophoresis. Using this technique, we obtained mitochondrial haplotypes for 100% of 48 New World Junonia butterfly specimens (Nymphalidae) ranging in age from pre-1813 to 1909 and show that the haplotype frequencies obtained are statistically indistinguishable from 20th-century and contemporary reference populations of Junonia (1632 specimens) matched by geographic region. As most extant insect specimens were collected after 1813, based on our findings we would expect that many or even most pinned specimens preserved in museum collections contain usable DNA for mitochondrial haplotyping.

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How old can we go? Evaluating the age limit for effective DNA recovery from historical insect specimens

Lalonde

Marcus

2019

Systematic Entomology

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“…There are names available for each of the three entities: meone Stoll, 1780 (type locality: Algeria), aegeria Linnaeus, 1758 (type locality: South Europe and North Africa) and tircis Godart, 1821 (type locality: France). However, using these names is complicated by the fact that the type locality of aegeria is given as ‘South Europe and North Africa’ and no type material exists (see Honey & Scoble, 2001). Fixing the name to populations in southern Europe would require a neotype, and such an act is beyond the scope of this paper.…”

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Speciation in Pararge (Satyrinae: Nymphalidae) butterflies – North Africa is the source of ancestral populations of all Pararge species

Weingärtner

Wahlberg

Nylin

2006

Systematic Entomology

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Abstract. The genus Pararge comprises three species: P. aegeria, distributed in Europe and North Africa; P. xiphia, endemic to Madeira; and P. xiphioides, endemic to the Canary Islands. Two subspecies are recognized in P. aegeria, P. a. tircis and P. a. aegeria, distributed in northern and southern Europe, respectively. In the 1970s, P. aegeria appeared on Madeira. However, despite the status of P. aegeria as a model species in ecological studies, the evolutionary history of Pararge remains unknown. We studied the phylogenetic relationships of the three Pararge species, using the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit I and the nuclear gene wingless to infer modes and times of speciation. On the basis of our analyses, Pararge forms a strongly supported monophyletic group, with the DNA haplotypes of the three species also forming well-supported monophyletic groups. We found that P. xiphia diverged first from the common ancestor a maximum of five million years ago, with P. xiphioides and P. aegeria being sister species that diverged a maximum of three million years ago. The two subspecies, P. a. tircis and P. a. aegeria, were not distinguishable on the basis of DNA haplotypes; instead, our data clearly distinguished between European specimens and those from North Africa. Madeiran P. aegeria has North African haplotypes and thus originated from there rather than from Europe. We raise the name meone Stoll, 1780 from synonymy to subspecies status (Parage aegeria meone stat. rev.) for populations in North Africa and Maderia. We hypothesize that the Mediterranean Sea forms a strong barrier to dispersal for Pararge butterflies, and has done so for approximately the past one million years.

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“…Talbot 1943;D'Abrera 1971;Common & Waterhouse 1981) occurs from the Philippines, Java and southern Sulawesi to New Guinea, Australia and the Pacific, east as far as American Samoa, and is currently divided into more than 20 named subspecies (Morishita 1981;Appendix 1). Of all Australian butterflies, T. hamata is the only one that bears a strong resemblance in size, shape and coloration to Papilio similis Linnaeus, 1758, a butterfly first described from China (Corbet 1949;Honey & Scoble 2001;Fig. 2), and now included in the related but very distinct danaine genus Ideopsis (Morishita 1981;Ackery & Vane-Wright 1984;Brower et al 2010).…”

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A specimen ofTirumala hamata hamata(Macleay, 1826) (Lepidoptera: Danainae) from Captain Cook’s first voyage

Robinson

Vane‐Wright

2018

Journal of Natural History

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On 29 May 1770 Joseph Banks described a spectacular swarming of "milions"[sic] "of one sort" of butterfly at Thirsty Sound, near what is now Rockhampton, Queensland, comparing it to a species from China that had been named by Linnaeus. Discovery of what appears to be an Endeavour Voyage specimen of this Australian butterfly in the Hunterian Zoology Museum, Glasgow, allows us to confirm its long-suspected identity as Tirumala hamata hamata (Macleay)a species unnamed and unknown at the time of Cook's First Voyage. Investigations into several collections that include 18 th century Australian Lepidoptera and associated literature have not positively identified any further specimens taken from the swarm, although a pair in Oxford University Museum of Natural History could be from the same source. Taxonomic confusion due to mimicry, convergence and/or non-divergence affecting blue tiger patterned butterflies is most likely the principal reason such a specimen has previously gone undetected. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Linnaeus's butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)

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How old can we go? Evaluating the age limit for effective DNA recovery from historical insect specimens

How old can we go? Evaluating the age limit for effective DNA recovery from historical insect specimens

Speciation in Pararge (Satyrinae: Nymphalidae) butterflies – North Africa is the source of ancestral populations of all Pararge species

A specimen ofTirumala hamata hamata(Macleay, 1826) (Lepidoptera: Danainae) from Captain Cook’s first voyage

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