@article {22874, title = {Description of a third species of the genus Protaleuron Rothschild \& Jordan, 1903 from Peru, department Amazonas}, journal = {The European Entomologist}, volume = {14}, year = {2022}, month = {12/2022}, pages = {109-119}, chapter = {109}, abstract = {

\"The taxonomic history and morphology of the two hitherto known species of the genus Protaleuron Rothschild \& Jordan, 1903 are reviewed. The males and females of both species are illustrated and their distributions discussed, with Protaleuron herbini Haxaire, 2001 being reported from Colombia for the first time. A third species is then described from Peru, Amazonas department, based on two female specimens.\"

}, keywords = {BARCODING, CATALOGUE, COI, COLOMBIA, DNA, MALE GENITALIA, NEIGHBOR-JOINING, PERU, SPHINGIDAE, WORLDMAP1}, author = {Haxaire, J. and Melichar, T.} } @article {22563, title = {Three new species of Cautethia Grote (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from the Lucayan Archipelago and keys to West Indies species}, journal = {Insecta Mundi}, volume = {937}, year = {2022}, month = {06/2022}, pages = {1-28}, chapter = {1}, abstract = {

\"Five species of Cautethia Grote (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) occur in the Lucayan (Bahamas) Archipelago, three of which are new to science. Cautethia simoni Miller, Matthews, and Gott, new species, is described and illustrated from Mayaguana Island, Bahamas, and Providenciales and Grand Turk of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Cautethia gossi Miller, Matthews, and Gott, new species, is described and illustrated from Great Inagua, Bahamas. Cautethia geraceorum Miller, Matthews, and Gott, new species, is described from San Salvador Island. Diagnoses are provided and new island records are reported for the two previously described Bahamas species, Cautethia grotei Edwards and Cautethia exuma McCabe. A taxonomic key based primarily on genitalia is provided for males and known females of the ten described species occurring in the West Indies. COI barcodes were obtained from representative Bahamas specimens and analyzed along with existing barcodes.\"

}, keywords = {BAHAMAS, BARCODING, CARIBBEAN, CATALOGUE, CHECKLIST, COI, DNA, FEMALE GENITALIA, HIMANTOIDES, KEY, MALE GENITALIA, NEIGHBOR-JOINING, SPHINGIDAE, TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS, WING PATTERN, WORLDMAP1}, url = {https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/1442/}, author = {Miller, J.Y. and Matthews, D.L. and Gott, R.J.} } @article {22185, title = {Ghosts of glaciers and the disjunct distribution of a threatened California moth (Euproserpinus euterpe)}, year = {2015}, abstract = {

\"The Kern Primrose Sphinx moth (Euproserpinus euterpe) is a threatened moth twice thought to have gone extinct. It was historically known only from a small basin in the southern Sierra Nevada of California, but a new putative population was recently discovered 115 km to the west. Analysis of both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA suggest discontinuous genetic breaks between the Kern Primrose Sphinx, its closest relative the Phaeton Sphinx (Euproserpinus phaeton), and at least one additional species discovered during the course of this study. Geographic distance is well correlated with genetic distance within species, but not between species. Genetic discontinuities show the influence of past glacial events and suggest recent range expansions, though not always congruent with other phylogeographic studies from the region. Our phylogeographic results demonstrate that past glacial events, the altitudinal suppression of suitable habitat, and isolation may have been more important than population-level ecological factors such as differences in habitat (e.g. sand dunes, oak forest, montane grasslands) in promoting speciation. Effective conservation of the genetic diversity of the widespread Phaeton Sphinx and its two geographically restricted relatives requires genetic data at the population level because relatively few localized populations harbor most of the genetic variation.\"

}, keywords = {BIOGEOGRAPHY, COI, CONSERVATION, DNA, EF-1ALPHA, EUPROSERPINUS, GLACIATION, MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD, PHYLOGEOGRAPHY, POPULATION GENETICS, SPHINGIDAE, STATISTICAL PARSIMONY, USA, WORLDMAP1}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.01.023}, author = {Rubinoff, D. and San Jose, M. and Johnson, P. and Wells, R. and Osborne, K. and Le Roux, J.J.} } @article {20886, title = {A molecular phylogeny of Eumorpha (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) and the evolution of anti-predator larval eyespots}, journal = {Systematic Entomology}, volume = {40}, year = {2015}, pages = {401-408}, chapter = {401}, keywords = {BAYESIAN INFERENCE, BEHAVIOUR, BIOGEOGRAPHY, CAD, COI, DEFENCE, DNA, EF-1ALPHA, EUMORPHA, EYESPOT, IMMATURE STAGES, MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD, MIMICRY, PHYLOGENY, RASP, RAXML, SPHINGIDAE, WINGLESS, WORLDMAP1}, doi = {10.1111/syen.12111}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12111}, author = {Ponce, F.V. and Breinholt, J.W. and Hossie, T. and Barber, J.R. and Janzen, D.H. and Hallwachs, W. and Kawahara, A.Y.} } @article {19852, title = {Evidence of repeated and independent saltational evolution in a peculiar genus of sphinx moths (Proserpinus: Sphingidae)}, journal = {PLoS ONE}, volume = {3}, year = {2008}, month = {2008}, pages = {e4035}, chapter = {e4035}, abstract = {

\"Background: Saltational evolution in which a particular lineage undergoes relatively rapid, significant, and unparalleled change as compared with its closest relatives is rarely invoked as an alternative model to the dominant paradigm of gradualistic evolution. Identifying saltational events is an important first-step in assessing the importance of this discontinuous model in generating evolutionary novelty. We offer evidence for three independent instances of saltational evolution in a charismatic moth genus with only eight species.

Methodology/Principal Findings: Maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian search criteria offered congruent, well supported phylogenies based on 1,965 base pairs of DNA sequence using the mitochondrial gene cytochrome oxidase subunit I, and the nuclear genes elongation factor-1 alpha and wingless. Using a comparative methods approach, we examined three taxa exhibiting novelty in the form of Batesian mimicry, host plant shift, and dramatic physiological differences in light of the phylogenetic data. All three traits appear to have evolved relatively rapidly and independently in three different species of Proserpinus. Each saltational species exhibits a markedly different and discrete example of discontinuous trait evolution while remaining canalized for other typical traits shared by the rest of the genus. All three saltational taxa show insignificantly different levels of overall genetic change as compared with their congeners, implying that their divergence is targeted to particular traits and not genome-wide.

Conclusions/Significance: Such rapid evolution of novel traits in individual species suggests that the pace of evolution can be quick, dramatic, and isolated\—even on the species level. These results may be applicable to other groups in which specific taxa have generated pronounced evolutionary novelty. Genetic mechanisms and methods for assessing such relatively rapid changes are postulated.\"

}, keywords = {ARCTONOTUS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, COI, DISPERSAL, DNA, EF-1ALPHA, FOODPLANT EVOLUTION, MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD, MIMICRY, PARSIMONY, PHENOLOGY, PHYLOGENY, PROSERPINUS, RELATIVE RATE TEST, SALTATIONAL EVOLUTION, SPHINGIDAE, WINGLESS}, doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0004035}, author = {Rubinoff, D. and Le Roux, J.J.} } @article {19853, title = {Synonomization [sic] of the euphonious Arctonotus Boisduval, 1852 (Sphingidae: Macroglossinae) based on molecular phylogenetic analysis}, journal = {Journal of the Lepidopterists{\textquoteright} Society}, volume = {63}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {233-235}, chapter = {233}, keywords = {ARCTONOTUS, CATALOGUE, COI, EF-1ALPHA, PHYLOGENY, PROSERPINUS, SPHINGIDAE, WINGLESS}, url = {https://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/2000s/2009/2009-63-4-233.pdf}, author = {Rubinoff, D. and Osborne, K.H. and Kawahara, A.Y.} } @article {18345, title = {Description de cinq nouveaux Sphingidae n{\'e}otropicaux et asiatiques (Lepidoptera Sphingidae) et notes sur Nyceryx riscus (Schaus, 1890)}, journal = {The European Entomologist}, volume = {5}, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {25-43}, chapter = {25}, keywords = {BARCODE GAP, BOLIVIA, CATALOGUE, COI, COLOMBIA, DNA, EAST TIMOR, ECUADOR, GUATEMALA, MALE GENITALIA, MANDUCA, MEXICO, NYCERYX, ORECTA, SPHINGIDAE, THERETRA, WORLDMAP1, XYLOPHANES}, author = {Haxaire, J.} }