Wilson, J.J. and Hebert, P.D.N. and Landry, J.F. and Janzen, D.H. and Hallwachs, W. and Nazari, V. and Hajibabaei, M. (2010) Identity of the ailanthus webworm moth (Lepidoptera,Yponomeutidae), a complex of two species: evidence from DNA barcoding, morphology and ecology. ZooKeys (46). pp. 41-60. ISSN 1313-2989, DOI https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.46.406.
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During extensive ongoing campaigns to inventory moths of North America and Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica, we discovered that morphologically similar yponomeutid moths were assigned two different names, Atteva ergatica Walsingham in Costa Rica and A. punctella (Stoll) in North America, but had identical DNA barcodes. Combining DNA barcoding, morphology and food plant records also revealed a complex of two sympatric species that are diagnosable by their DNA barcodes and their facies in Costa Rica. However, neither of the names could be correctly applied to either species, as A. ergatica is a junior synonym and A. punctella a junior homonym. By linking our specimens to type material through morphology and DNA barcoding, we determined that the ACG dry forest species, distributed from Costa Rica to southern Quebec and Ontario, should be called A. aurea, whereas the similar and marginally sympatric ACG rain forest species found in Central America should be called A. pustulella. Neotypes are designated for P Tinea punctella Stoll, 1781 and Deiopeia aurea Fitch, 1857. Atteva floridana has identical barcodes to A. aurea and provisionally maintained as a synonym.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Additional Information: | Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DNA barcoding, Integrative taxonomy, Synonymy, Atteva aurea, Atteva, pustulella, ACG, Costa Rica, Wing pattern, Skipper butterflies, Lepidoptera, Biodiversity, Hesperiidae, Integration, Inventory, Genitalia, Atteva, Genus |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Institute of Biological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Miss Malisa Diana |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Feb 2013 03:29 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Dec 2014 06:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/4639 |
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