<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Schmidt, B.C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gartshore, M.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ecology, morphology and distribution of Anisota finlaysoni Riotte (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zootaxa</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ANISOTA</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BARCODING</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BIOGEOGRAPHY</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CANADA</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">COI</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DNA</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ECOLOGY</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IMMATURE MORPHOLOGY</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IMMATURE STAGES</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SATURNIIDAE</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">USA</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6/6/2025</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5646.1.3</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">63-77</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Identifying the conservation needs of the short-horned oakworm, &lt;em&gt;Anisota finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt; Riotte, has been hampered by&amp;nbsp;incomplete resolution of species boundaries and geographic ranges of the &lt;em&gt;Anisota senatoria &lt;/em&gt;species-group. Here, the life history, morphology, occurrence, and DNA barcode variation of &lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni &lt;/em&gt;and &lt;em&gt;A. senatoria&lt;/em&gt; are compared across a transect of three key geographic regions in Ontario, Canada. Contrary to recent range depictions, our results show that &lt;em&gt;A.&amp;nbsp;finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt; is currently confirmed to occur only in the region of eastern Lake Ontario&amp;rsquo;s north shore. Previous information on morphological characters used to distinguish &lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni &lt;/em&gt;is incomplete or erroneous. Lake Erie populations most recently assigned to&lt;em&gt; A. finlaysoni &lt;/em&gt;exhibit some &lt;em&gt;finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt;-like larval traits, but adult phenotype of all examined material is indistinguishable from &lt;em&gt;A. senatoria&lt;/em&gt; of the Lake Huron region, and unlike topotypical &lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt;. Although the cryptic occurrence of &lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni &lt;/em&gt;in the Lake Erie region cannot be ruled out, current data indicate that this species has a much smaller global range than previously believed, and is separated by a geographic gap of about 200 km from the nearest &lt;em&gt;A. senatoria&lt;/em&gt; populations. Re-assignment of the Lake Erie populations from &lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;A. senatoria&lt;/em&gt;, and the recognition of some peripheral occurrence records as historical errors, results in a significantly smaller global range for&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt;. DNA barcode data for the genus &lt;em&gt;Anisota &lt;/em&gt;are at odds with current taxonomy, limiting the utility of barcodes in discriminating species of the senatoria-group. Because &lt;em&gt;A. finlaysoni&lt;/em&gt; is distinct morphologically as adults and larvae from geographically nearby populations of &lt;em&gt;A. senatoria&lt;/em&gt;, it should continue to be treated as a distinct species pending convincing evidence to the contrary.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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