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Diversity and endemism of butterflies of montane forests of Eravikulam National Park in the Western Ghats, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
In a study on the diversity and abundance of butterflies of montane forests of Eravikulam National Park in the Western Ghats, southern India, 85 species of butterflies belonging to six families were recorded.
E. R. Sreekumar, S. Nikhil, K. G. Ajay, P. O. Nameer   +3 more
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Unique Duplication of trnN in Odontoptilum angulatum (Lepidoptera: Pyrginae) and Phylogeny within Hesperiidae

Insects, 2021
To explore the variation and relationship between gene rearrangement and phylogenetic effectiveness of mitogenomes among lineages of the diversification of the tribe Tagiadini in the subfamily Pyrginae, we sequenced the complete mitogenome of ...
Jiaqi Liu, Jintian Xiao, Xiangyu Hao, Xiangqun Yuan   +3 more
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Variation of thorax flight temperature among twenty Australian butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Nymphalidae, Pieridae, Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2016
Thermal requirements for flight in butterflies is determined by a combination of external factors, behaviour and physical constraints. Thorax temperature of 152 butterflies was monitored with an infra-red thermometer in controlled laboratory conditions ...
Gabriel NÈVE, Casey HALL
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New records of butterfly fauna (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidaea, Papilionoidaea) from Daghestan (Russia) [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2009
Five new species of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae, Satyridae) were found in the mountains of Daghestan (Russia)
D.V. Morgun, V.V. Tikhonov
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Three new subfamilies of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2019
We obtained and analyzed whole genome data for more than 160 representatives of skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae) from all known subfamilies, tribes and most distinctive genera. We found that two genera, Katreus Watson, 1893 and Ortholexis Karsch,
Jing Zhang, Qian Cong, Jinhui Shen, Ernst Brockmann, Nick V. Grishin   +4 more
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It’s a moth! It’s a butterfly! It’s the complete mitochondrial genome of the American moth-butterfly Macrosoma conifera (Warren, 1897) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hedylidae)!

Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020
The taxonomic placement of the moth-butterfly, Macrosoma conifera (Warren 1897) (Lepidoptera: Hedylidae), has been controversial. The 15,344 bp complete M.
Bonnie S. McCullagh, Mackenzie R. Alexiuk, Josephine E. Payment, Rayna V. Hamilton, Melanie M. L. Lalonde, Jeffrey M. Marcus   +5 more
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Checklist of Rhopalocera fauna of District Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory, India (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea)

SHILAP, 2023
The survey carried out in March - December 2021 has revealed the presence of Forty-seven Rhopalocera species under the families: Hesperiidae, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae and Pieridae, belonging to 37 genera and five families from district ...
Huma Nisar
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The genome sequence of the grizzled skipper, Pyrgus malvae (Linnaeus, 1758) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research, 2022
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Pyrgus malvae (the grizzled skipper; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Hesperiidae). The genome sequence is 725 megabases in span.
Roger Vila, Alex Hayward, Dominik Laetsch, Konrad Lohse   +3 more
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Reconstructing a 55-million-year-old butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2016
The oldest butterfly fossil known, which was formed about 55 Ma in what is now Denmark, is described. The fragments of its forewing venation indicates it belongs to the Hesperiidae.
Rienk DE JONG
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Tandem duplication of two tRNA genes in the mitochondrial genome of Tagiades vajuna (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae)

European Journal of Entomology, 2017
To explore the debated phylogenetic relationship of two Hesperiidae subfamilies, Pyrginae and Eudaminae, and contribute to the understanding of the evolution of mitogenomic architecture in butterflies, we sequenced the complete mitogenome of Tagiades ...
Fang-Fang LIU, Yi-Ping LI, Ivan JAKOVLIĆ, Xiang-Qun YUAN   +3 more
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