Cryptic species, biogeographic complexity and the evolutionary history of the Ectemnorhinus group in the sub-Antarctic, including a description of Bothrometopus huntleyi, n. sp.

Antarctic Science

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 211-224

  Grobler, G C ^a   Bastos, A D S ^a   Treasure, A M ^b   Chown, S L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coleoptera; Curculionidae; dispersal; evolution; phylogeny; Southern Ocean islands; speciation

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BEETLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANTARCTICA; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS;

BOTHROMETOPUS; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; ECTEMNORHINUS; PALIRHOEUS;

EID: 79958820782     PISSN: 09541020     EISSN: 13652079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102011000101     Document Type: Article

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