Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 346-361

  Leneveu, Julien ^a   Chichvarkhin, Anton ^b   Wahlberg, Niklas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Institute of Biology and Soil Science   (Russian Federation)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Colonization; Divergence time; Palaeoclimate; Speciation rate; Systematic

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; BUTTERFLY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; DIVERGENCE; HOLARCTIC REGION; PALEARCTIC REGION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

LEPIDOPTERA; MELITAEA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 66149151814     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01208.x     Document Type: Article

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