DNA barcodes from over-a-century-old type specimens shed light on the taxonomy of a group of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Calinaginae)

Valentina Todisco; Dipendra  Nath Basu; Prosser  Sean W. J.; Russell Stephen; Mutanen Marko; Zilli Alberto; Huertas Blanca; Kunte Krushnamegh; Vane-Wright Dick

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0305825

DNA barcodes from over-a-century-old type specimens shed light on the taxonomy of a group of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Calinaginae)

Valentina Todisco^*, Dipendra Nath Basu, Prosser Sean W. J. , Russell Stephen, Mutanen Marko , Zilli Alberto , Huertas Blanca, Kunte Krushnamegh , Vane-Wright Dick

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We analyzed COI barcode sequences from 138 over-a-century old specimens of Calinaga including 36 name-bearing type specimens stored at the Natural History Museum London. These new data, combined with previously available RPS5 sequences, divide the Calinaga samples into four well-supported mitochondrial lineages that together with a novel wing-pattern analysis, support the recognition of six species (lhatso, buddha, brahma, aborica, formosana and davidis), with all other names subsumed either as subspecies or synonyms. One new taxon is described, Calinaga aborica naima Vane-Wright, ssp. n.

Original language	English
Journal	PLoS ONE
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0305825
Publication status	Published - 17 Jul 2024

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Copyright: © 2024 Todisco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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