中國產茶蠶蛾(現改隸屬樺蛾科)屬的分類檢討與新種貢山茶蠶的描述

 

文獻來源: Wang X, Zeng L, Wang M. (2011) The genus Andraca (Lepidoptera, Endromidae) in China with descriptions of a new species. Zookeys 127: 29-42, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.127.928 [link]

Abstract
The six species of the genus Andraca Walker hitherto known from China are reviewed, and a new species, Andraca gongshanensis, sp. n., described from Yunnan Province, China. Adults and male genitalia of all examined species are illustrated, together with a distributional map. A key to all seven Chinese Andraca species is provided. The types of the new species are deposited in SCAU (South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China) and HUNAU (Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China).

傳統上認知的"蝴蝶"並不是一個單系群, 若想要讓蝴蝶這個名詞代表一個單系群, 那麼就應該把弄蝶, 絲角蝶總科加以合併

文獻來源: Heikkilä M, Kaila L, Mutanen M, Peña C, Wahlberg N. (2011) Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B doi: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1430.[link]

Abstract

Although the taxonomy of the ca 18 000 species of butterflies and skippers is well known, the family-level relationships are still debated. Here, we present, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of the superfamilies Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea and Hedyloidea to date based on morphological and molecular data. We reconstructed their phylogenetic relationships using parsimony and Bayesian approaches. We estimated times and rates of diversification along lineages in order to reconstruct their evolutionary history. Our results suggest that the butterflies, as traditionally understood, are paraphyletic, with Papilionidae being the sister-group to Hesperioidea, Hedyloidea and all other butterflies. Hence, the families in the current three superfamilies should be placed in a single superfamily Papilionoidea. In addition, we find that Hedylidae is sister to Hesperiidae, and this novel relationship is supported by two morphological characters. The families diverged in the Early Cretaceous but diversified after the Cretaceous–Palaeogene event. The diversification of butterflies is characterized by a slow speciation rate in the lineage leading to Baronia brevicornis, a period of stasis by the skippers after divergence and a burst of diversification in the lineages leading to Nymphalidae, Riodinidae and Lycaenidae.

所謂的豆莢螟不只一種

文獻來源:  

Margam VM, Coates BS, Ba MN, Sun W, Binso-Dabire CL, Baoua I, Ishiyaku MF, Shukle JT,   Hellmich RL, Covas FG, Ramasamy S, Armstrong J, Pittendrigh BR and Murdock LL. 2011. Geographic distribution of phylogenetically-distinct legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae). Molecular Biology Reports 38: 893–903.

摘要：

豆莢螟(Maruca vitrata)是泛熱帶分佈的重要豆類害蟲，防治上主要仰賴化學藥劑。在分類上，有學者認為豆莢螟是一個複合群，可能包含了不只一種(Taylor, 1967)，然而後續研究卻仍將豆莢螟視為一獨立種。在這篇研究中，作者群利用PCR-RFLP分析來自臺灣、澳洲、西非與波多黎各材料的cox 1基因，發現西非的族群呈現較高的遺傳變異。利用ITS2重建親緣關係的結果則指向過去被認為是豆莢螟的物種分成三個主要分支，此結果顯示豆莢螟可能包含了不同的種或亞種有待釐清。