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 …

Roughly 90% of butterfly species live in the tropics. Despite this, we know very little about
tropical butterfly ecology particularly when compared to temperate butterfly systems. The …

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …

Summary Butterflies (Papilionoidea), with over 18,000 described species [1], have
captivated naturalists and scientists for centuries. They play a central role in the study of …

Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial
organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several …

It is widely documented that hybridisation occurs between many closely related species, but
the importance of introgression in adaptive evolution remains unclear, especially in animals …

As a step towards understanding the higher‐level phylogeny and evolutionary affinities of
quadrifid noctuoid moths, we have undertaken the first large‐scale molecular phylogenetic …

Zahiri, R., Kitching, IJ, Lafontaine, JD, Mutanen, M., Kaila, L., Holloway, JD & Wahlberg,
N.(2010). A new molecular phylogeny offers hope for a stable family level classification of …

Butterfly wing patterns provide a rich comparative framework to study how morphological
complexity develops and evolves. Here we used CRISPR/Cas9 somatic mutagenesis to test …

The global increase in species richness toward the tropics across continents and taxonomic
groups, referred to as the latitudinal diversity gradient, stimulated the formulation of many …