Additional notes on butterflies of the Cape Verde Islands

Tennent, W. John; Russell, Peter

doi:10.4314/met.v30i1.2

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“…There are no islands in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Senegal and The Gambia where these butterflies could have reached land. The Cape Verde Islands are to the east, 570 km from the coast of Africa, and Ascension Island is to the south, 2200 km from Africa; neither island has records of Caper Whites (Robinson & Kirke 1990, Tennent & Russell 2015, 2019. Both islands are within the limits of butterfly movements over the oceans.…”

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Millions of Caper Whites <i>Belenois aurota</i> 100 km offshore of West Africa

Chipps¹,

Underhill

2023

Biodiv. Obs.

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Millions of Caper Whites <i>Belenois aurota</i> 100 km offshore of West Africa

Chipps¹,

Underhill

2023

Biodiv. Obs.

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“…Although this curious discrepancy was consciously not noted in the text of our previous paper (Tennent & Russell, 2015), the front cover of the journal issue in which the paper appeared carried a full page picture of a specimen from Brava with no tails! The topic played a significant part in our decision to revisit the islands in 2017 (Tennent & Russell, 2019).…”

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“…This paper arises from fieldwork conducted in the Cape Verde Islands, first undertaken in 2013 (Tennent & Russell, 2015) and continued in 2017 (Tennent & Russell, 2019). During a cumulative total of four months, 12 islands were visited (Brava, Cima [Ilhés do Rombo], Fogo, Santiago, Maio, Boa Vista, Sal, São Nicolau, Raso, Santa Luzia, São Vicente and Santo Antão), many more than once.…”

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Some phenotypic variation in Leptotes pirithous on the Cape Verde Islands, in a wider geographical context (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Tennent¹,

Russell²

2022

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Unusual phenotypes of Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767) were encountered on islands of the Cape Verde Archipelago in 2013 and 2017. Dark/pale and tailed/tailless forms of this polyommatine lycaenid species are illustrated and discussed. The name capverti Libert, Baliteau & Baliteau, 2011, is considered and the phenotype compared with dark forms elsewhere. It is concluded that many individuals are indistinguishable from the Indian Ocean f. insulana Aurivillius, 1909, and from other dark forms that occur in many localities. L. pirithous host-plants on eight different islands, and observations regarding phenotypes, are tabulated. The three specimens of Aurivillius’ insulana and the holotype and both paratypes of capverti are illustrated for the first time, together with a sample of specimens of L. pirithous from the African mainland, the Cape Verde Islands and other islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

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“…Argyronympha comprises six species, all restricted to the main islands of the Solomon Islands archipelago, including Bougainville Island (Fig. 5; Tennent, 2002). (Politically, Bougainville is part of Papua New Guinea, which comprises the eastern half of New Guinea island plus its offshore islands.)…”

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“…On Bougainville Island, Argyronympha is recorded in the understorey of marginal secondary and primary forest, from sea‐level up to 800 m (Parsons, 1999). In the Solomon Islands proper, the genus inhabits shady spots in the dense forest, frequenting the understorey, and it may retire deeper into the forest when disturbed (Tennent, 2002). This ecology is common for satyrines in general (e.g.…”

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Biogeographic–tectonic calibration of 14 nodes in a butterfly timetree

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Grehan

Nielsen³

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The butterfly subtribe Coenonymphina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) comprises four main clades found, respectively, in (1) the Solomon Islands, (2) Australasia, (3) NW South America and (4) Laurasia, with a phylogeny: 1 (2 (3 + 4)). In assessing biogeographic evolution in the group we rejected the conversion of fossil-calibrated clade ages to likely maximum clade ages by the imposition of arbitrary priors. Instead, we used biogeographic-tectonic calibration, with fossil-calibrated ages accepted as minima. Previous studies have used this approach to date single nodes (phylogenetic-biogeographic breaks) in a group, but we extended the methodology to date multiple nodes. Within the Coenonymphina as a whole, 14 nodes coincide spatially with ten major tectonic events. In addition, the phylogenetic sequence of these nodes conforms to the chronological sequence of the tectonic events, consistent with a vicariance origin of the clades. Dating of the spatially coincident tectonic features provides a timescale for the vicariance events. The tectonic events are: pre-drift intracontinental rifting between India and Australia (150 Ma); seafloor spreading at the margins of the growing Pacific plate, and between North and South America (140 Ma); magmatism flare-up along the SW Pacific Whitsunday Volcanic Province-Median Batholith (130 Ma); a change from extension in the Clarence basin, eastern Australia, to uplift of the Great Dividing Range (114 Ma); Pamir Mountains uplift, foreland basin dynamics and high eustatic sea-levels leading to marine transgression of the proto-Paratethys Ocean eastward to Central Asia and Xinjiang (100 Ma); predrift rifting and seafloor spreading west of New Caledonia (100-50 Ma); sinistral strike-slip displacement along the proto-Alpine fault, New Zealand (100-80 Ma); thrust faulting in the Longmen Shan and foreland basin dynamics around the Sichuan Basin (85 Ma); pre-drift rifting in the Coral Sea basin (85 Ma); and dextral displacement on the Alpine fault (20 Ma).

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Additional notes on butterflies of the Cape Verde Islands

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Millions of Caper Whites <i>Belenois aurota</i> 100 km offshore of West Africa

Millions of Caper Whites <i>Belenois aurota</i> 100 km offshore of West Africa

Some phenotypic variation in Leptotes pirithous on the Cape Verde Islands, in a wider geographical context (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

Biogeographic–tectonic calibration of 14 nodes in a butterfly timetree

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