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 …

Despite progress in recent decades, the conservation management of insects and allied
invertebrates in Australia is challenging and remains a formidable task against a …

The diversity and abundance of native invertebrates is declining globally, which could have
significant consequences for ecosystem functioning. Declines are likely to be at least as …

Within the insect order L epidoptera (moths and butterflies), the so‐called nonditrysian
superfamilies are mostly species‐poor but highly divergent, offering numerous …

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are one of the most taxonomically diverse insect orders
with nearly 160,000 described species. They have been studied extensively for centuries …

Aim Lepidoptera is a highly diverse, predominantly herbivorous insect order, with species
transported to outside their native range largely facilitated by the global trade of plants and …

The field of molecular phylogenetics is being revolutionized with next‐generation
sequencing technologies making it possible to sequence large numbers of genomes for non …

Classic morphological studies of the oldest, so‐called nonditrysian lineages of Lepidoptera
yielded a well‐resolved phylogeny, supported by the stepwise origin of the traits …

The Lepidoptera–moths, butterflies, and skippers–represent one of the three most species‐
rich insect orders and the largest evolutionary radiation of herbivorous animals. This chapter …

The Hepialidae (Ghost Moths) are a family of often spectacular micro-moths. The Australian
region is one of the hot spots for hepialid diversity and the fauna is divided into three groups …