The butterfly subfamily Pseudopontiinae is not monobasic: Marked genetic diversity and morphology reveal three new species of Pseudopontia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 139-163

  Mitter, Kim T ^a   Larsen, Torben B ^b   De Prins, Willy ^c   De Prins, Jurate ^d   Collins, Steve ^e   Vande Weghe, Gaël ^f   Sáfián, Szabolcs ^g   Zakharov, Evgeny V ^h   Hawthorne, David J ^a   Kawahara, Akito Y ^a   Regier, Jerome C ^a,i  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Jacobys Alle 2   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

^e African Butterfly Research Institute Nairobi   (Kenya)

^f University of Guelph ^*

^g UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; BUTTERFLY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM; WING MORPHOLOGY; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

CONGO BASIN;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PSEUDOPONTIA; PSEUDOPONTIA PARADOXA; PSEUDOPONTIINAE;

EID: 78651332718     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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