Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Authors: | B. C. Schmidt |
Journal: | Zootaxa |
Volume: | 4399 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page: | 32 |
Pagination: | 32-48 |
Date Published: | 03/2018 |
ISSN: | 1175-5326 |
Keywords: | BARCODING, BAYESIAN INFERENCE, CANADA, CAPRIFOLIACEAE, CATALOGUE, COI, CRYPTIC SPECIES, DIERVILLA, DNA, FOODPLANT, HEMARIS, IMMATURE STAGES, LONICERA, MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD, MIMICRY, SPECIES DELIMITATION, SPHINGIDAE, TYPES, USA, WORLDMAP1 |
Abstract: | "Through integrating molecular, morphological and natural history evidence, nominal Hemaris diffinis (Boisduval) of eastern North America is shown to include a second, cryptic species, Hemaris aethra (Strecker) stat. rev. Despite highly divergent mtDNA sequences and differing larval phenotypes, genitalic morphology, habitat and larval host plants, adults of H. aethra and sympatric H. diffinis are externally so similar that H. aethra has remained unrecognized for over a century. |
URL: | https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.2 |
Cryptic species among bumblebee mimics: an unrecognized Hemaris hawkmoth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in eastern North America
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