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Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator.
TLDR
The results add to the evidence that cryptic species are prevalent in tropical regions, a critical issue in efforts to document global species richness, and illustrate the value of DNA barcoding, especially when coupled with traditional taxonomic tools, in disclosing hidden diversity.
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DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera.
TLDR
It is shown that cytochrome c oxidase I DNA barcodes effectively discriminate among species in three Lepidoptera families from Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica, suggesting DNA barcoding will significantly aid species identification and discovery in tropical settings.
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Wedding biodiversity inventory of a large and complex Lepidoptera fauna with DNA barcoding
TLDR
The early stages of the use of cox1 barcoding to supplement and strengthen the taxonomic platform underpinning the inventory of thousands of sympatric species of caterpillars in tropical dry forest, cloud forest and rain forest in northwestern Costa Rica are described.
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Integration of DNA barcoding into an ongoing inventory of complex tropical biodiversity
TLDR
Adding DNA barcoding to the inventory of the caterpillars, their food plants and parasitoids in northwestern Costa Rica has substantially improved the quality and depth of the inventory, and greatly multiplied the number of situations requiring further taxonomic work for resolution.
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A tropical horde of counterfeit predator eyes
TLDR
It is proposed that the many different, but essentially similar, eye-like and face-like color patterns displayed by hundreds of species of tropical caterpillars and pupaeconstitute a huge and pervasive mimicry complex that is evolutionarily generated and sustained by the survival behavior of a large and multispecific array of potential predators: the insect-eating birds.
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DNA barcodes and cryptic species of skipper butterflies in the genus Perichares in Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica
TLDR
DNA barcodes can be used to identify cryptic species of skipper butterflies previously detected by classic taxonomic methods and to provide first clues to the existence of yet other cryptic species, and this complex likely includes still more species, whose exposure may require barcoding.
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DEWLAP COLOR VARIATION AND ELECTROPHORETICALLY DETECTED SIBLING SPECIES IN A HAITIAN LIZARD, ANOLIS BREVIROSTRIS
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To investigate the significance of geographic variation in dewlap color, it was decided to describe it in greater detail across a series of Haitian populations of A. brevirostris and to determine the relationships of those same species.
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Mating frequency in natural population of skippers and butterflies as determined by spermatophore counts.
  • J. M. Burns
  • Biology
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
  • 1 November 1968
TLDR
Spermatophore counts in dissected wild females are useful in analyzing genetic polymorphism, preferential mating, and mating frequency in Lepidoptera and this elliptic approach has been successful in recent genetic analyses of complex esterase polymorphisms in natural populations of Colias eurytheme (Pieridae) and Hemiargus isola (Lyeaenidae).
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Minimalist revision and description of 403 new species in 11 subfamilies of Costa Rican braconid parasitoid wasps, including host records for 219 species
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Three new genera are described: Michener (Proteropinae), Bioalfa ( Rogadinae) and Hermosomastax (Rogadinaes) and a consensus sequence of the COI barcodes possessed by each species is employed to diagnose the species, and this approach is justified in the introduction.
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Evolution in Skipper Butterflies of the Genus Erynnis
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