A complete time-calibrated multi-gene phylogeny of the European butterflies

With the aim of supporting ecological analyses in butterflies, the third most species-rich superfamily of Lepidoptera, this paper presents the first time-calibrated phylogeny of all 496 extant butterfly species in Europe, including 18 very localised endemics for which no public DNA sequences had bee...

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Main Authors: Martin Wiemers, Nicolas Chazot, Christopher W. Wheat, Oliver Schweiger, Niklas Wahlberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020-06-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/50878/download/pdf/