Vargas Héctor A
Departamento de Recursos Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 6-D, Arica, Chile Universidad de Tarapacá Arica Chile.
Zookeys. 2023 Dec 19;1186:285-292. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1186.112397. eCollection 2023.
Surveys in the arid shrubland of the central Andes revealed larval polyphagy for Vargas, 2022 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Ennominae, Boarmiini), a geometrid moth with flightless females. This discovery suggests that, as well as in the Holarctic fauna, larval polyphagy would have been important for the evolution of flightlessness among Neotropical geometrid moths of the tribe Boarmiini.
在安第斯山脉中部干旱灌木丛地区进行的调查显示,对于瓦尔加斯蛾(2022年发现,鳞翅目,尺蛾科,枝尺蛾亚科,波尺蛾族)而言,其幼虫具有多食性,该尺蛾雌蛾无飞行能力。这一发现表明,与全北区动物群一样,幼虫多食性对于波尺蛾族新热带区尺蛾的无飞行能力进化可能也很重要。