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Carcasson's African Butterflies: An Annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region
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This book serves as a comprehensive catalogue to the entire butterfly fauna of the Afrotropical region and contains all genus-group, species-group and infrasubspecific names applied to the Af Rotropical Butterfly fauna, a total of about 14,000 names.Abstract:
Intended for biologists with an interest in Africa and African butterflies, this book serves as a comprehensive catalogue to the entire butterfly fauna of the Afrotropical region. It covers 3593 species in 300 genera - about 20% of the world butterfly fauna; and contains all genus-group, species-group and infrasubspecific names applied to the Afrotropical butterfly fauna, a total of about 14,000 names. Bibliographic reference provided for all genus, species and infrasubspecific names, as are the type species designation for all genus-group names. The sequence of families, subfamilies, tribes and genera reflects current knowledge of classification. Information of distribution, habitats and known larval hostplants provided for all species. A comprehensive introduction includes sections on general behaviour, biogeography and early stage biology, together with a gazetteer and list of regional works. Features include: 300 photographs which illustrate one representative species for each genus; and a comprehensive cbibliography. The text is fully indexed.read more
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The biodiversity of the Albertine Rift
Andrew J. Plumptre,Tim R.B. Davenport,Mathias Behangana,Robert Kityo,Gerald Eilu,Paul Ssegawa,Corneille E. N. Ewango,Danny Meirte,Charles Kahindo,Marc Herremans,Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans,Julian C. Kerbis Peterhans,John D. Pilgrim,John D. Pilgrim,Malcolm Wilson,Marc Languy,David Moyer +16 more
TL;DR: The Albertine Rift is one of the most important regions for conservation in Africa as discussed by the authors, containing more vertebrate species than any other region on the continent and contains more endemic species of vertebrate than any region on mainland Africa.
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Representing biodiversity: data and procedures for identifying priority areas for conservation.
TL;DR: These procedures use complementarity, a measure of the contribution each area in a region makes to the conservation goal, to estimate irreplaceability and flexibility, measures of the extent to which areas can be substituted for one another in order to take competing land uses into account.
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Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography, and divergence time estimates for swallowtail butterflies of the genus Papilio (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
TL;DR: This divergence time suggests that Papilio has slower apparent substitution rates than do Drosophila and fig-pollinating wasps and/or divergences corrected using best-fit substitution models are still being consistently underestimated.
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Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography
TL;DR: A reclassification of the subfamily Pierinae into two tribes is proposed, corroborating Ehrlich’s 1958 phenetic hypothesis and arguing for an origin of the two subfamilies in western Gondwana (Africa + South America) during the Late Cretaceous.
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Revised classification of the family Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea) based on combined molecular and morphological data
TL;DR: A combined analysis of DNA data matrix and morphological characters is used to identify morphological synapomorphies of the suprageneric clades of Hesperiidae, and to hypothesize a phylogenetic classification of the world’s genera of Hesperingidae, the first of its kind for this diverse group.