Sihvonen Pasi, Murillo-Ramos Leidys, Wahlberg Niklas, Hausmann Axel, Zilli Alberto, Ochse Michael, Staude Hermann S
Finnish Museum of Natural History "Luomus", University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Sucre, Colombia.
PeerJ. 2021 Jun 25;9:e11613. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11613. eCollection 2021.
The systematic position of a large and strikingly coloured reddish-black moth, Herbulot, 2003 (Geometridae: Sterrhinae) from Tanzania, has remained questionable since its description. Here we present molecular and morphological evidence showing that only superficially resembles true Warren, 1894 (the relative name currently considered a junior synonym of Hübner, 1820), which are unpalatable diurnal moths superficially resembling butterflies, and that it is misplaced in the family Geometridae. We transfer it to Noctuidae: Agaristinae, and combine it with the genus Jordan, 1926, from Tanzania, as (Herbulot, 2003) . We revise the genus to contain three species, but find that it is a cryptic species complex that needs to be revised with more extensive taxon sampling. Our results demonstrate the difficulties in interpreting and classifying biological diversity. We discuss the problems in species delimitation and the potential drivers of evolution in eastern Africa that led to phenotypic similarity in unrelated lepidopteran lineages.
自2003年被描述以来，来自坦桑尼亚的一种大型、颜色鲜艳呈红黑色的蛾子Herbulot的系统位置一直存在疑问。在这里，我们提供分子和形态学证据表明，它仅表面上类似于1894年的真正沃伦蛾（Warren）（其相关名称目前被认为是1820年胡伯纳蛾（Hübner）的次异名），后者是外表类似蝴蝶的不可口的日间蛾子，并且它在尺蛾科中的分类有误。我们将它转移到夜蛾科：艾夜蛾亚科，并将其与来自坦桑尼亚的1926年的乔丹蛾属（Jordan）合并，成为（Herbulot, 2003）。我们修订了乔丹蛾属，使其包含三个物种，但发现它是一个隐存种复合体，需要通过更广泛的分类群采样来修订。我们的结果证明了在解释和分类生物多样性方面存在的困难。我们讨论了物种界定中的问题以及东非导致不相关鳞翅目谱系表型相似性的潜在进化驱动因素。
