The evolution of insect biodiversity

E Tihelka, C Cai, M Giacomelli, J Lozano-Fernandez… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
Insects comprise over half of all described animal species. Together with the Protura
(coneheads), Collembola (springtails) and Diplura (two-pronged bristletails), insects form …

Phylogeny and evolution of Lepidoptera

C Mitter, DR Davis, MP Cummings - Annual review of …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
Until recently, deep-level phylogeny in Lepidoptera, the largest single radiation of plant-
feeding insects, was very poorly understood. Over the past two decades, building on a …

Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths

AY Kawahara, D Plotkin, M Espeland… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …

An online taxonomic facility of Geometridae (Lepidoptera), with an overview of global species richness and systematics

H Rajaei, A Hausmann, M Scoble, D Wanke… - … Stuttgart Contributions to …, 2022‏ - BioOne
We present a new, online, open access portal to the geometrid moths of the world
(Lepidoptera: Geometridae). The portal provides access to the global database including …

A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

IJ Kitching, R Rougerie, A Zwick… - Biodiversity Data …, 2018‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Bombycoidea is an ecologically diverse and speciose superfamily of
Lepidoptera. The superfamily includes many model organisms, but the taxonomy and …

Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens

C Mayer, L Dietz, E Call, S Kukowka… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Geometridae (Lepidoptera) with a focus on enigmatic small subfamilies

L Murillo-Ramos, G Brehm, P Sihvonen, A Hausmann… - PeerJ, 2019‏ - peerj.com
Our study aims to investigate the relationships of the major lineages within the moth family
Geometridae, with a focus on the poorly studied Oenochrominae-Desmobathrinae complex …

[کتاب][B] Psychidae

WR Arnscheid, M Weidlich - 2017‏ - books.google.com
In Psychidae Arnscheid and Weidlich provide for the first time a complete tool for identifying
the European bag worm moths. The book will provide a sufficient overview of the …

Refining the phylogeny of Crambidae with complete sampling of subfamilies (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea)

T Léger, R Mally, C Neinhuis, M Nuss - Zoologica Scripta, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Crambidae is a group of moths with more than 10,000 species occurring worldwide that
evolved diverse morphological and ecological habits. They can be best recognized by …

[PDF][PDF] New World geometrid moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae): Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, taxonomic updates and description of 11 new tribes

G Brehm, L Murillo-Ramos… - Arthropod …, 2019‏ - researchportal.helsinki.fi
We analysed a molecular dataset of 1206 Geometroidea terminal taxa. In this paper we
focus on New World taxa, with 102 Nearctic terminal taxa (97 of which have not previously …