COI Barcodes combined with multilocus data for representative Aporia taxa shed light on speciation in the high altitude Irano-Turanian mountain plateaus (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

Autor: Vazrick Nazari, Vladimir Lukhtanov, Alireza Naderi, Costantino Della Bruna, Reza Zahiri, Donatella Cesaroni, Valerio Sbordoni, Valentina Todisco
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: BMC Ecology and Evolution, Vol 24, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2730-7182
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-024-02294-3
Popis: Abstract Even though the high plateaus of Qinghai-Tibet and Iran share many faunal elements, the historical biogeography of the species present in this area are not very well understood. We present a complete COI barcode library for Aporia Hübner and a first comprehensive phylogeny for the genus including all known species and majority of subspecies using ten available genes (COI-COII, ND1, ND5, Cytb, EF-1a, Wg, 16S, 28S-D2/D3 and 28S-D8). We then focus on A. leucodice (Eversmann, 1843) and related taxa in order to resolve some long-standing taxonomic issues in this species-group. Based on DNA sequence data as well as morphology, we raise Aporia illumina (Grum-Grshimailo 1890) stat. nov. (= pseudoillumina Tshikolovets 2021 syn. nov.) as a distinct species and designate a lectotype; synonymize Aporia leucodice leucodice Eversmann, 1843 (= A. l. morosevitshae Sheljuzhko, 1908 syn. nov.); and describe a new species, Aporia ahura sp. nov., from the Central Alborz Mountains in northern Iran.
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