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Pretty amazing documentation of Painted Lady butterflies crossing the Atlantic from Europe-North Africa to South America! #butterflies...

Pretty amazing documentation of Painted Lady butterflies crossing the Atlantic from Europe-North Africa to South America!
#butterflies #Lepidoptera

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49079-2

Hot off the press - evolutionary history of burnet moths - by Mirela Miric for her Master's in collaboration with K. Efetov, G. Tarmann,...

Hot off the press - evolutionary history of burnet moths - by Mirela Miric for her Master's in collaboration with K. Efetov, G. Tarmann, Andrea Chiocchio, Maria Heikkilä, D. Wagner, and Jadranka Rota. Also have a look at Appendix 1 for a careful review of zygaenid fossils.

https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/syen.12634

#Lepidoptera #Zygaenidae #Zygaena

Our new paper on Limacodidae phylogeny is out in Systematic Entomology! #Lepidoptera #systematics...

Our new paper on Limacodidae phylogeny is out in Systematic Entomology!
#Lepidoptera #systematics #molecular_phylogeny

https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/syen.12626

New paper out with Ossi Nokelainen and Johanna Mappes, where we finally show that cryptic species are actually more variable than aposematic...

New paper out with Ossi Nokelainen and Johanna Mappes, where we finally show that cryptic species are actually more variable than aposematic species! Long an assumption in models of evolution, but never empirically shown. Digitized collections of butterflies and moths show the way! #Lepidoptera #warning_coloration #aposematic #cryptic

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45329-5

Newest addition to GBIF from our museum (Biological Museum Lund University)! A dataset on all individually registered specimens of insects,...

Newest addition to GBIF from our museum (Biological Museum Lund University)! A dataset on all individually registered specimens of insects, with the vast majority being georeferenced! More than 250,000 records.
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/b23c2479-214f-4160-9f98-bd3831ab131b

New preprint out where we compare WGS with target enrichment for old museum specimens of moths in the families Epicopeiidae and Sematuridae!...

New preprint out where we compare WGS with target enrichment for old museum specimens of moths in the families Epicopeiidae and Sematuridae! Great work done by co-authors Elsa, Victoria and Marianne!

#Lepidoptera #museomics #Epicopeiidae #Sematuridae #Geometroidea

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.21.553699v1

Enjoying following the #SMBE2023 hashtag, and wishing more people would move over here from "that other site"

Enjoying following the #SMBE2023 hashtag, and wishing more people would move over here from "that other site"

Yay, now out, the final installment of the Zahiri et al Noctuoidea papers, the last family Euteliidae! Very happy to see this, and a huge...

Yay, now out, the final installment of the Zahiri et al Noctuoidea papers, the last family Euteliidae! Very happy to see this, and a huge thanks to Reza for persisting with this. In addition, I am humbled and honoured to have a genus named after me, Niklastelia 🤗

#Lepidoptera #Noctuoidea #Euteliidae #phylogeny #classification #moths

https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12587

This tattered old female I collected in Croatia last week probably flew over the Sahara to get to Europe!...

This tattered old female I collected in Croatia last week probably flew over the Sahara to get to Europe! Wow!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/153914447

Where does the Painted Lady spend winter? The wintering grounds of Vanessa cardui finally scoped out! Very cool!#Lepidoptera #Vanessa...

Where does the Painted Lady spend winter? The wintering grounds of Vanessa cardui finally scoped out! Very cool!

#Lepidoptera #Vanessa #cardui #Nymphalidae #Nymphalinae

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218280120

A massive, mind blowing paper on the taxonomy and systematics of the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina! Congratulations to all the authors,...

A massive, mind blowing paper on the taxonomy and systematics of the butterfly subtribe Euptychiina! Congratulations to all the authors, this is an enormous contribution to butterfly systematics! I don't think any of the authors are on Mastodon though :-(

#butterfly #Lepidoptera #classification #Euptychiina #Satyrinae #Nymphalidae

https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/syen.12590

Registration is now open for the Biology of Butterflies conference in Prague July 10-13! https://www.bob2023.cz/

Registration is now open for the Biology of Butterflies conference in Prague July 10-13!
https://www.bob2023.cz/

Happy to have helped out in this #phylogenomic study of three closely related species of #bats https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac175

Happy to have helped out in this #phylogenomic study of three closely related species of #bats

https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac175

My annual overview of NymphalidaeHow many species of #Nymphalidae are considered valid now? 6514! In 2022 there were 23 species/subspecies...

My annual overview of Nymphalidae

How many species of #Nymphalidae are considered valid now? 6514! In 2022 there were 23 species/subspecies described (as far as I am aware). I try to keep the lists up-to-date on my web page. Let me know if I am missing something!

#Lepidoptera #butterflies

http://www.nymphalidae.net/Nymphalidae/Classification/Higher_class2.htm

And the second is the white admiral #Limenitis #camilla #lepidoptera #butterfly #genome https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/7-301/v1

And the second is the white admiral #Limenitis #camilla

#lepidoptera #butterfly #genome

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/7-301/v1

A couple of new butterfly genomes out from #DToL (Darwin Tree of Life)! The first is the high brown #fritillary #Fabriciana...

A couple of new butterfly genomes out from #DToL (Darwin Tree of Life)! The first is the high brown #fritillary #Fabriciana #adippe

#lepidoptera #butterfly #genome

https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/7-298/v1

The #butterfly genus #Agraulis reinstated. Yay! I fully agree with the author Carla Penz. I really didn't like Agraulis being...

The #butterfly genus #Agraulis reinstated. Yay! I fully agree with the author Carla Penz. I really didn't like Agraulis being synonymized with Dione.
#lepidoptera #taxonomy

https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.5209.3.8

PhD position available at Lund University on conservation genomics of orchids in Sweden. Apply here:...

PhD position available at Lund University on conservation genomics of orchids in Sweden. Apply here: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:557391/type:job/where:4/apply:1

#PhDposition #ConservationGenomics #RADseq #popgen #orchids

Hi all, part of the #twittermigration, I'm an entomologist working on Lepidoptera phylogenetics and evolutionary history. Hope to find...

Hi all, part of the #twittermigration, I'm an entomologist working on Lepidoptera phylogenetics and evolutionary history. Hope to find the same community building up here!