Dados morfológicos e moleculares para desvendar a sistemática e a história evolutiva das borboletas Euptychiina: um estudo em diferentes níveis taxonômicos

Author(s)

Mario Alejandro Marín

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Biologia
• Defense date: 2019-05-28

Examining board members

André Victor Lucci Freitas; André Olmos Simões; Patricia Jacqueline Thyssen; Fernando Maia Silva Dias; Fernando Jesús Carbayo Baz

• Advisor: André Victor Lucci Freitas

Abstract

Euptychiina is a group of mainly Neotropical distribution butterflies, occurring from sea level up to 3500 meters altitude. The group offers a valuable opportunity to study the biogeographic history of the neotropics, being one of the most diverse groups of Satyrinae, but with many uncertainties in phylogenetic and taxonomic levels. Also the diversity of Euptychiina, its importance in the assemblages of neotropical butterflies, as well as the morphological homogeneity of the species and their difficult differentiation are points that justify the study of this subtribe. In the present manuscript the subtribe Euptychiina is studied under three different perspectives: 1- Phylogenetics: with phylogenetic studies (morphological and molecular) testing the monophyletic Euptychiina and, in detail, the "Pareuptychia clade"; 2- Biogeographic: with the study of the geographic distribution and diversification of the "Pareuptychia clade"; and 3- Species delimitation: with a detailed study of the genus Pareuptychia (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 14/16481-0 - Phylogeny, systematic, and biogeography of the butterflies Pareuptychia clade (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae: Euptychiina)
• Grantee: Mario Alejandro Marín Uribe
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate