Hiller Alexandra, Werding Bernd
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Panama, Panama Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Panama Panama.
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt am Main Germany.
Zookeys. 2024 Feb 16;1191:391-407. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1191.111570. eCollection 2024.
The complex currently consists of six American species distributed in the West Atlantic, including the amphi-American . All species in the complex are similar in their adult morphology but differ in colour, size, larval morphology, and shape of the adult sternal plate. The West Atlantic species have different geographic ranges, which overlap in the southern Caribbean. Previously published molecular data support the monophyly of the complex, and the reciprocal monophyly of each described species and further clades corresponding to different colour morphs. Here, the morph "Blue" is described as , and is formally resurrected for the Pacific individuals of . By adding these two species to the complex, this now consists of eight species. Colour illustrations of all species and colour morphs are provided and their geographic distributions and ecological ranges are discussed and updated.
该类群目前由分布于西大西洋的六个美洲物种组成,包括跨美洲的物种。该类群中的所有物种在成虫形态上相似,但在颜色、大小、幼虫形态和成虫腹板形状上有所不同。西大西洋的物种有不同的地理分布范围,在加勒比海南部重叠。先前发表的分子数据支持该类群的单系性,以及每个已描述物种和对应不同颜色形态的进一步分支的相互单系性。在这里,形态“蓝色”被描述为 , 被正式恢复用于 的太平洋个体。通过将这两个物种添加到 类群中,现在该类群由八个物种组成。提供了所有物种和颜色形态的彩色插图,并讨论和更新了它们的地理分布和生态范围。