Natural History of<i>Selenophanes cassiope guarany</i>(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Brassolini): an Integrative Approach, From Molecules to Ecology

Shirai, Leila T.; Barbosa, Eduardo P.; Greve, Roberto R.; Magaldi, Luiza M.; Nascimento, Ana Cláudia; Freitas, André Victor Lucci

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“…COMB., and synonymize Aponarope , NEW SYN. Selenophanes orgetorix , NEW COMB. This species grouped with members of Selenophanes with high posterior probability (see also Shirai et al 2017), justifying the proposed new combination.…”

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“…This species grouped with members of Selenophanes Staudinger, 1887, with high posterior probability (0.99) in our analysis, which justifies the revised generic assignment. Using COI barcoding sequences, Shirai et al . (2017) also found that the genus Catoblepia Stichel, 1902, was paraphyletic with respect to Selenophanes due to the sister relationship between S. orgetorix and Selenophanes species.…”

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“…Brassolini constitutes a monophyletic group (Freitas and Brown 2004, Wahlberg et al 2009, Espeland et al 2018, Chazot et al 2019a). Studies that focused on individual genera used adult morphology (Penz 2008, 2009a, b, Garzón-Orduña and Penz 2009) and DNA data (Penz et al 2011a, Shirai et al 2017) to infer robust species-level phylogenies, but several deep nodes had weak or even conflicting phylogenetic support in tribal-level analyses (Penz et al 2013). We infer a time-calibrated species by merging all previous datasets and generating new DNA and morphological data to clarify the phylogeny of Brassolini under the multispecies coalescent framework.…”

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“…Here we examine biogeographical patterns for butterflies in the tribe Brassolini (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), an exclusively Neotropical monophyletic group (Freitas & Brown, 2004; Wahlberg et al ., 2009; Espeland et al ., 2018; Chazot et al ., 2019a) consisting of 17 genera and 108 species found mainly in the rainforests of Mesoamerica, the northwestern slope (NW) of the Andes (including e.g., Chocó), the Atlantic Forest, and Amazonia (see Penz, 2007, for an overview). Studies that focused on individual brassoline genera used adult morphology (Penz, 2008, 2009a,b; Garzón-Orduña & Penz, 2009) and DNA data (Penz, Mohammadi, & Wahlberg, 2011a; Shirai et al ., 2017) to infer species-level phylogenies, but several deep nodes had weak or even conflicting phylogenetic support in tribal-level analyses (Penz et al ., 2013). We infer a time-calibrated species phylogeny of Brassolini by merging all previous datasets and generating new DNA and morphological data to infer the diversification and biogeographical histories of these butterflies.…”

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Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: Insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

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Wahlberg

Freitas

et al. 2019

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Regional species diversity is ultimately explained by speciation, extinction, and dispersal. Here we estimate dispersal and speciation rates in Neotropical rainforest biomes to propose an explanation for the distribution and diversity of extant butterfly species. We focus on the tribe Brassolini (owl butterflies and allies): a Neotropical group that comprises 17 genera and 108 species, most of them endemic to rainforest biomes. We infer a total-evidence species tree using the multispecies coalescent framework. By applying biogeographical stochastic mapping, we infer ancestral ranges and estimate rates of dispersal and cladogenesis at the scale of millions of years. We suggest that speciation in Mesoamerica and the northwestern flank of the Andes have only increased within the past 2 million years. In contrast, speciation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest has been constant throughout the past 10 million years. The disparate species diversification dynamics may be partly explained by the geological and environmental history of each bioregion. Importantly, the dispersal rates into the Atlantic Forest and Mesoamerica plus NW Andes increased simultaneously in the middle-Miocene, suggesting that lineages from such regions have had comparable times for speciation despite their decoupled diversification dynamics. Diversification of extant Amazonian lineages, on the other hand, has episodically increased since the late Miocene, including a rise in speciation rate during the Pleistocene. Altogether, our results reveal a mosaic of biome-specific evolutionary histories within the Neotropics, where species have diversified rapidly (cradles: e.g., Mesoamerica), have accumulated gradually (museums: e.g., Atlantic Forest), or have alternately diversified and accumulated (e.g., Amazonia).

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Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: Insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

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Long horns protect Hestina japonica butterfly larvae from their natural enemies

Kandori

Hiramatsu

Soda

et al. 2022

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Animals sometimes have prominent projections on or near their heads serving diverse functions such as male combat, mate attraction, digging, capturing prey, sensing or defence against predators. Some butterfly larvae possess a pair of long frontal projections; however, the function of those projections is not well known. Hestina japonica butterfly larvae have a pair of long hard projections on their heads (i.e., horns). Here we hypothesized that they use these horns to protect themselves from natural enemies (i.e., predators and parasitoids). Field surveys revealed that the primary natural enemies of H. japonica larvae were Polistes wasps. Cage experiments revealed that larvae with horns intact and larvae with horns removed and fitted with horns of other individuals succeeded in defending themselves against attacks of Polistes wasps significantly more often than larvae with horns removed. We discuss that the horns counter the paper wasps’ hunting strategy of first biting the larvae’s ‘necks’ and note that horns evolved repeatedly only within the Nymphalidae in a phylogeny of the Lepidoptera. This is the first demonstration that arthropods use head projections for physical defence against predators.

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Dasyophthalma (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): systematics, distribution, and conservation perspectives of a butterfly genus endemic from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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Barbosa²,

Machado³

et al. 2023

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Dasyophthalma includes five species of medium-sized butterflies, all endemic from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. All known species are univoltine and are dayflying, differently from other Brassolini that are mostly crepuscular. In despite of recent advances little is known about their natural history. Three out of the five species are included in the Brazilian Red List of threatened fauna and are of conservation concern. The present study provides for the first time a phylogenetic assessment of all Dasyophthalma species based on a molecular approach based on three loci. Also, the taxonomic status of D. rusina delanira was revised based on molecular data. In addition, up-to-date distributional data and conservation aspects of the threatened species from the genus are presented and discussed. The molecular phylogenetic analysis supports the monophyly of Dasyophthalma, with Dynastor darius as its sister-group, and, combined with a genetic divergence analysis, supported Dasyophthalma delanirastat. rest. as a valid name to species-level, sister-group to D. geraensis (and not a subspecies of D. rusina). The geographical range (extent of occurrence and area of occupancy) for all five species are presented, showing that these are very restricted for D. delanirastat. rest. and D. geraensis, following the distributions of the high-altitude forests. As much biological information about the genus is lacking, the present study can serve as a starting point for future studies on Dasyophthalma, adding information that can be crucial for future conservation actions and essential to assure the future of the threatened species in this genus.

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Natural History ofSelenophanes cassiope guarany(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Brassolini): an Integrative Approach, From Molecules to Ecology

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Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: Insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical butterfly diversity: Insights from the evolution and biogeography of Brassolini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

Long horns protect Hestina japonica butterfly larvae from their natural enemies

Dasyophthalma (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): systematics, distribution, and conservation perspectives of a butterfly genus endemic from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

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