Biology and morphology of the immature stages of<i>Hermeuptychia atalanta</i>(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

Cosmo, Leandro G.; Barbosa, Eduardo P.; Freitas, André Victor Lucci

doi:10.1080/00379271.2014.895120

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“…atalanta) were the most abundant species in the study area. These species are common in forest edges, disturbed tropical forests, plantations, and urban environments, probably due their low biological constraints (Brown Jr., 1992;Ramos, 2000;Uehara-Prado et al, 2007); Cosmo et al, 2014). Therefore, their high abundances are an indication that human disturbances have favored population increases of tolerant and opportunist organisms.…”

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Species diversity and community structure of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in an eastern amazonian forest

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Species diversity and community structure of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in an eastern amazonian forest

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“…In the field, caterpillars were initially identified as morphospecies and their total count in each stratum was recorded. The caterpillars collected were taken to the laboratory and reared in plastic pots following standard techniques (Cosmo et al., 2014).…”

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From the leaf to the community: Distinct dimensions of phytochemical diversity shape insect–plant interactions within and among individual plants

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Plant secondary chemistry is known to be an important driver of plant–insect community structure across ecological scales. Recently, the concept of phytochemical diversity (PD) has been introduced to help describe variation in plant secondary chemistry and explain how this variation affects community structure. Previous studies show that PD among individuals and species results in phytochemical mosaics, known as the phytochemical landscape. However, plant traits can vary at finer scales, such as within individuals, and even a single host plant may be perceived as an entire phytochemical landscape by an interacting insect. Using the neotropical shrub Piper amalago, we tested and compared how herbivory, caterpillar biodiversity and plant–herbivore network structure are affected by the compositional (number and concentration of compounds) and structural (diversity of distinct chemical structures) dimensions of PD. We analysed variation among individual plants and among‐plant height strata within individual plants. This allowed us to decompose PD within and among plant individuals and analyse how variation at both scales affects the plant–herbivore network. We found that both within and among plants greater structural diversity decreased herbivore feeding damage. Furthermore, each dimension of PD has different effects on herbivore biodiversity and network structure depending on the scale of biological organization. Within plants, the compositional dimension, specifically low concentrations of compounds tentatively identified as Piper amides, increased herbivore biodiversity. This dimension also increased the capacity of strata within plants to mediate ecological cascades through direct and indirect effects on herbivore abundance in the plant–herbivore network. In contrast, a greater structural diversity among plants decreased herbivore biodiversity and the capacity of plants to affect all other herbivores and plants directly and indirectly in the network. Synthesis. Based on our results we expand the concept of the phytochemical landscape to multiple scales of biological organization and provide evidence that PD may be maintained by how its multiple dimensions have distinct roles across scales of biological organization.

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“…These morphological features were studied and drawn using a Leica MZ 16 stereomicroscope at different magnifications up to 100x. The terminology associated with wings and genitalia largely follows Miller ( 1970 : 44), Peña & Lamas (2005) and Klots (1956) (but see Nakahara et al, 2018a ; Nakahara et al, 2018b for some modifications), and immature stage terminology follows Stehr (1987) and Cosmo, Barbosa & Freitas (2014) . We use the following abbreviations throughout the text: DFW : dorsal forewing; DHW : dorsal hindwing; VFW : ventral forewing; VHW : ventral hindwing.…”

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Description of a new genus and species for a common and widespread Amazonian satyrine butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini)

Nakahara

Lamas

Willmott

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We here propose a new monotypic butterfly genus Scriptor Nakahara & Espeland, n. gen. to accommodate a new species, S. sphenophorus Lamas & Nakahara, n. sp., described and named herein. Scriptor sphenophorus n. gen. and n. sp.is a relatively common and widespread butterfly species which is recovered as a member of the so-called “Splendeuptychia clade” in the nymphalid subtribe Euptychiina, based on our molecular phylogenetic analysis using a maximum likelihood approach. Nevertheless, its sister group is not confidently resolved in any analysis, supporting a relatively distant relationship to any described genus as well as our decision to establish a new monotypic genus. We further discuss the proposed taxonomy in the light of frequent criticism of the description of monotypic taxa, as well as emphasize the importance of incorporating multiple evidence when describing new genera, illustrated by reference to several recent generic descriptions in this subtribe.

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Biology and morphology of the immature stages ofHermeuptychia atalanta(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

Cited by 10 publications

References 26 publications

Species diversity and community structure of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in an eastern amazonian forest

Species diversity and community structure of fruit-feeding butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in an eastern amazonian forest

From the leaf to the community: Distinct dimensions of phytochemical diversity shape insect–plant interactions within and among individual plants

Description of a new genus and species for a common and widespread Amazonian satyrine butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini)

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