Evolutionary Framework for Lepidoptera Model Systems

Roe, Amanda D.; Weller, Susan J.; Baixeras, Joaquin; Brown, John W.; Cummings, Michael; Davis, Donald R.; Kawahara, Akito Y.; Parr, Cynthia; Regier, Jerome C.; Rubinoff, Daniel; Wahlberg, Niklas; Zwick, Andreas

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“…The superfamily is mosty diversified in the intertropical region of the globe and currently includes ten families and more than 500 genera (van Nieukerken et al 2011). Bombycoidea includes many model organisms (e.g., Bombyx mori Linnaeus, 1758, Manduca sexta Linnaeus, 1763, Hyalophora cecropia Linnaeus, 1758) that serve pivotal roles in studies on genetics, physiology, and development (see Roe et al 2009). They are also economically important (e.g., pests, sericulture) and are frequently used as educational tools due to their large body size, attractiveness and ease of rearing in captivity (e.g., atlas moth, Attacus atlas (Linnaeus, 1758) and luna moth, Actias luna (Linnaeus, 1758)).…”

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A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

Kitching¹,

Rougerie²,

Zwick³

et al. 2018

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BackgroundBombycoidea is an ecologically diverse and speciose superfamily of Lepidoptera. The superfamily includes many model organisms, but the taxonomy and classification of the superfamily has remained largely in disarray. Here we present a global checklist of Bombycoidea. Following Zwick (2008) and Zwick et al. (2011), ten families are recognized: Anthelidae, Apatelodidae, Bombycidae, Brahmaeidae, Carthaeidae, Endromidae, Eupterotidae, Phiditiidae, Saturniidae and Sphingidae. The former families Lemoniidae and Mirinidae are included within Brahmaeidae and Endromidae respectively. The former bombycid subfamilies Oberthueriinae and Prismostictinae are also treated as synonyms of Endromidae, and the former bombycine subfamilies Apatelodinae and Phitditiinae are treated as families.New informationThis checklist represents the first effort to synthesize the current taxonomic treatment of the entire superfamily. It includes 12,159 names and references to their authors, and it accounts for the recent burst in species and subspecies descriptions within family Saturniidae (ca. 1,500 within the past 10 years) and to a lesser extent in Sphingidae (ca. 250 species over the same period). The changes to the higher classification of Saturniidae proposed by Nässig et al. (2015) are rejected as premature and unnecessary. The new tribes, subtribes and genera described by Cooper (2002) are here treated as junior synonyms. We also present a new higher classification of Sphingidae, based on Kawahara et al. (2009), Barber and Kawahara (2013) and a more recent phylogenomic study by Breinholt et al. (2017), as well as a reviewed genus and species level classification, as documented by Kitching (2018).

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A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

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Zwick³

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“…They have been bred for sericultural purposes for at least 5000 years, and the detailed life histories of countless numbers of species have been investigated since then. Lepidoptera include many serious pest species and they have been popular organisms in various model systems (Roe et al 2010). The phylogenetics of some major lepidopteran groups have been intensively studied on the basis of their morphology, and more recently also based on DNA data.…”

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Comprehensive gene and taxon coverage elucidates radiation patterns in moths and butterflies

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Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) represent one of the most diverse animals groups. Yet, the phylogeny of advanced ditrysian Lepidoptera, accounting for about 99 per cent of lepidopteran species, has remained largely unresolved. We report a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of lepidopteran affinities. We performed phylogenetic analyses of 350 taxa representing nearly 90 per cent of lepidopteran families. We found Ditrysia to be a monophyletic taxon with the clade Tischerioidea þ Palaephatoidea being the sister group of it. No support for the monophyly of the proposed major internested ditrysian clades, Apoditrysia, Obtectomera and Macrolepidoptera, was found as currently defined, but each of these is supported with some modification. The monophyly or near-monophyly of most previously identified lepidopteran superfamilies is reinforced, but several species-rich superfamilies were found to be para-or polyphyletic. Butterflies were found to be more closely related to 'microlepidopteran' groups of moths rather than the clade Macrolepidoptera, where they have traditionally been placed. There is support for the monophyly of Macrolepidoptera when butterflies and Calliduloidea are excluded. The data suggest that the generally short diverging nodes between major groupings in basal non-tineoid Ditrysia are owing to their rapid radiation, presumably in correlation with the radiation of flowering plants.

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“…Lepidoptera also include many model organisms as well as some of the most damaging agricultural pests (e.g. Bombyx, Cydia, Helicoverpa, Manduca, Spodoptera [7]). Although many lines of evidence provide strong support for the monophyly of Lepidoptera (summarized in [1,6,8]), relationships among superfamilies, especially those in the lower Ditrysia, remain largely uncertain.…”

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Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths

2014

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Butterflies and moths constitute some of the most popular and charismatic insects. Lepidoptera include approximately 160 000 described species, many of which are important model organisms. Previous studies on the evolution of Lepidoptera did not confidently place butterflies, and many relationships among superfamilies in the megadiverse clade Ditrysia remain largely uncertain. We generated a molecular dataset with 46 taxa, combining 33 new transcriptomes with 13 available genomes, transcriptomes and expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Using HaMStR with a Lepidoptera-specific coreorthologue set of single copy loci, we identified 2696 genes for inclusion into the phylogenomic analysis. Nucleotides and amino acids of the all-gene, alltaxon dataset yielded nearly identical, well-supported trees. Monophyly of butterflies (Papilionoidea) was strongly supported, and the group included skippers (Hesperiidae) and the enigmatic butterfly-moths (Hedylidae). Butterflies were placed sister to the remaining obtectomeran Lepidoptera, and the latter was grouped with greater than or equal to 87% bootstrap support. Establishing confident relationships among the four most diverse macroheteroceran superfamilies was previously challenging, but we recovered 100% bootstrap support for the following relationships: ((Geometroidea, Noctuoidea), (Bombycoidea, Lasiocampoidea)). We present the first robust, transcriptome-based tree of Lepidoptera that strongly contradicts historical placement of butterflies, and provide an evolutionary framework for genomic, developmental and ecological studies on this diverse insect order.

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Evolutionary Framework for Lepidoptera Model Systems

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A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)

Comprehensive gene and taxon coverage elucidates radiation patterns in moths and butterflies

Phylogenomics provides strong evidence for relationships of butterflies and moths

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