Weijun Liang, Renato Nunes, Jing V Leong, Ana Paula S Carvalho, Chris J Müller, Michael F Braby, Olivier Pequin, Sugihiko Hoshizaki, Sadaharu Morinaka, Djunijanti Peggie, Jade Aster T Badon, Alma B Mohagan, Ethan Beaver, Yu-Feng Hsu, Yutaka Inayoshi, Alexander Monastyrskii, Petr Vlasanek, Emmanuel F A Toussaint, Hugo A Benítez, Akito Y Kawahara, Naomi E Pierce, David J Lohman
The world's largest butterfly genus Delias, commonly known as Jezebels, comprises ca. 251 species found throughout Asia, Australia, and Melanesia. Most species are endemic to islands in the Indo-Australian Archipelago or to New Guinea and nearby islands in Melanesia, and many species are restricted to montane habitats over 1200 m. We inferred an extensively sampled and well-supported molecular phylogeny of the group to better understand the temporal and geographic dimensions of its diversification. The remarkable diversity of Delias evolved in just ca...
February 5, 2024: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution