From jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu Sat Nov 2 01:19:07 2013 From: jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu (James Mallet) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 21:19:07 -0400 Subject: [TABD] Latest Saura, Saura & Keith Brown chromosome paper 2013 Message-ID: <5274530B.9090308@oeb.harvard.edu> Saura A, von Schoultz B, Saura AO, Brown KS. 2013. Chromosome evolution in Neotropical butterflies. Hereditas 150: 26-37. https://www.dropbox.com/s/l8hjkabsd119zsr/Butterfly%20chromosome.pdf?m -- James Mallet OEB & GEE Depts Harvard University & University College London Cambridge, MA 02138 and LONDON WC1E 6BT USA tel: +(1)617-496-5350 www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim From jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu Sat Nov 2 01:28:10 2013 From: jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu (James Mallet) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 21:28:10 -0400 Subject: [TABD] Video de Dr Keith Willmott habla sobre la importancia de mariposas en Ecuador, Ithomiinae, y conservacion Message-ID: <5274552A.5070904@oeb.harvard.edu> Dr Keith Willmott talking about his research on the butterflies of Ecuador: http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=267199 -- James Mallet OEB & GEE Depts Harvard University & University College London Cambridge, MA 02138 and LONDON WC1E 6BT USA tel: +(1)617-496-5350 www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cpenz at uno.edu Sat Nov 2 17:07:18 2013 From: cpenz at uno.edu (Carla M Penz) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 17:07:18 +0000 Subject: [TABD] share your observations Message-ID: Hello everybody, I am seeking confirmation that Opoptera aorsa, hilaris, arsippe, bracteolata and staudingeri display the regular crepuscular activities of other brassolines, while Opoptera sulcius, syme and fruhstorferi fly actively during the day. If you have field observations that you are willing to share, I would be most grateful! Best wishes, Carla Carla M. Penz Department of Biological Sciences University of New Orleans http://fs.uno.edu/cpenz/ and http://biology.uno.edu/people/penz/home.aspx From jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu Tue Nov 26 02:42:21 2013 From: jmallet at oeb.harvard.edu (Jim Mallet) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:42:21 -0500 Subject: [TABD] Absurdly complete bibliography of tropical butterflies Message-ID: <52940A8D.9070102@oeb.harvard.edu> Gerardo Lamas has issued an online update to his bibliography of tropical butterflies. Here's the link: http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/cpena/Lamas_2013_Annotated_Bibliography.pdf According to this page, Carlos Pena is currently working on bullying the text file into a database format: http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/cpena/lamas_references.html Best wishes to you all -- James Mallet OEB Dept, Harvard University & Professor of Biological Diversity, University College London 16 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, USA www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim From mycalesis at gmail.com Tue Nov 26 17:43:01 2013 From: mycalesis at gmail.com (Carlos Pena) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:43:01 +0200 Subject: [TABD] new paper: Diversification in major Lepidoptera lineages Message-ID: <5294DDA5.3010905@gmail.com> Hi all, our latest paper just came out in PLoS ONE: here is the link to download: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0080875 Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths) "We find that the diversification of major lineages in Lepidoptera are approximately equal in age to the crown group of angiosperms and that there appear to have been three significant increases in diversification rates among Lepidoptera over evolutionary time: 1) at the origin of the crown group of Ditrysia about 150 million years ago (mya), 2) at the origin of the stem group of Apoditrysia about 120 mya and finally 3) a spectacular increase at the origin of the stem group of the quadrifid noctuoids about 70 mya. In addition, there appears to be a significant increase in diversification rate in multiple lineages around 90 mya, which is concordant with the radiation of angiosperms." Citation: Wahlberg N, Wheat CW, Pe?a C (2013) Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). PLoS ONE 8(11): e80875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080875 carlos -- Dr. Carlos Pe?a Laboratory of Genetics Department of Biology University of Turku 20014 Turku FINLAND * Associated Editor, Revista Peruana de Biolog?a http://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/rpb * The Nymphalidae Systematics Group http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/db.php