Preliminary assessment of the tribe Lemoniini (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae) based on adult morphology

Title Variants

Alternative: Lemoniini

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3284

By

Penz, Carla Maria, 1961-

DeVries, Philip J., 1952-

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY, American Museum of Natural History, c1999

Notes

Title from caption.

"December 8, 1999."

"A cladistic analysis of 97 characters taken from adult morphology was used to assess the higher-level phylogeny of the butterfly tribe Lemoniini (sensu Harvey, 1987). Many of our characters are described and illustrated in detail to assist future work in riodinid systematics. To evaluate the monophyly of Lemoniini, representative species of five genera in the putative sister tribe Nymphidiini were included in the analysis. Our results indicated that the Lemoniini was not monophyletic, and that some Nymphidiini grouped within Lemoniini. As this study provided no support for maintaining Lemoniini and Nymphidiini as separate taxa, we propose the amalgamation of these two tribes. Our analysis also suggested that not all genera currently placed in Lemoniini are monophyletic"--P. [1].

Subjects

Classification , Generative organs , Lemoniini , Nymphidiini , Riodinidae

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3284, 1999

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 43034130