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

Vazrick Nazari; Vladimir Lukhtanov; Alireza Nardei; Costantino Della Bruna; Reza Zahiri; Donatella Cesaroni; Valerio Sbordoni; Valentina Todisco

doi:10.1186/s12862-024-02294-3

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

Vazrick Nazari (Corresponding author), Vladimir Lukhtanov, Alireza Nardei, Costantino Della Bruna, Reza Zahiri, Donatella Cesaroni, Valerio Sbordoni, Valentina Todisco (Corresponding author)

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	105
Journal	BMC Ecology
Volume	24
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02294-3
Publication status	Published - 3 Aug 2024

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Sino-Himalaya
Species delimitation
Palearctic region
Butterflies
Molecular taxonomy

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Nazari, V., Lukhtanov, V., Nardei, A., Della Bruna, C., Zahiri, R., Cesaroni, D., Sbordoni, V., & Todisco, V. (2024). COI Barcodes combined with multilocus data for representative Aporia taxa shed light on speciation in the high altitude Irano-Turanian mountain plateaus (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). BMC Ecology, 24(1), Article 105. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02294-3

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