Larval food plants of Australian Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) - a review of available data

Schmidt, Olga

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“…Members of the Ennominae tribe Boarmiini often use a phylogenetically broad set of hosts, and Robinson et al [48] list records from 28 families for Ectropis bhurmitra (electronic supplementary material, appendix S4). Within Larentiinae there are also many polyphagous species [49]. This suggests that even 'super generalists' may have preferred (core) hosts that represent islands from which host expansion can proceed; perhaps these are ancestral hosts.…”

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Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest

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A long-term goal in evolutionary ecology is to explain the incredible diversity of insect herbivores and patterns of host plant use in speciose groups like tropical Lepidoptera. Here, we used standardized food-web data, multigene phylogenies of both trophic levels and plant chemistry data to model interactions between Lepidoptera larvae (caterpillars) from two lineages (Geometridae and Pyraloidea) and plants in a species-rich lowland rainforest in New Guinea. Model parameters were used to make and test blind predictions for two hectares of an exhaustively sampled forest. For pyraloids, we relied on phylogeny alone and predicted 54% of species-level interactions, translating to 79% of all trophic links for individual insects, by sampling insects from only 15% of local woody plant diversity. The phylogenetic distribution of host-plant associations in polyphagous geometrids was less conserved, reducing accuracy. In a truly quantitative food web, only 40% of pair-wise interactions were described correctly in geometrids. Polyphenol oxidative activity (but not protein precipitation capacity) was important for understanding the occurrence of geometrids (but not pyraloids) across their hosts. When both foliar chemistry and plant phylogeny were included, we predicted geometrid-plant occurrence with 89% concordance. Such models help to test macroevolutionary hypotheses at the community level.

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“…), but none are known to be affiliated with Piperaceae host plants, nor with Euphorbiaceae (the only known host plants of Old World Eois ). Caterpillars of some Australian representatives of Epicyme and Poecilasthena feed on plants in the Ericaceae, Haloragaceae, or Myrtaceae [ 75 ], and in at least one single instance on Piperaceae [ 73 ]. Feeding on Euphorbiaceae is rare in geometrids, apart from Old World Eois there are only two known instances of Euphorbiaceae feeders within the Asthenini.…”

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Diversification rates, host plant shifts and an updated molecular phylogeny of Andean Eois moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

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Eois is one of the best-investigated genera of tropical moths. Its close association with Piper plants has inspired numerous studies on life histories, phylogeny and evolutionary biology. This study provides an updated view on phylogeny, host plant use and temporal patterns of speciation in Eois. Using sequence data (2776 bp) from one mitochondrial (COI) and one nuclear gene (Ef1-alpha) for 221 Eois species, we confirm and reinforce previous findings regarding temporal patterns of diversification. Deep diversification within Andean Eois took place in the Miocene followed by a sustained high rate of diversification until the Pleistocene when a pronounced slowdown of speciation is evident. In South America, Eois diversification is very likely to be primarily driven by the Andean uplift which occurred concurrently with the entire evolutionary history of Eois. A massively expanded dataset enabled an in-depth look into the phylogenetic signal contained in host plant usage. This revealed several independent shifts from Piper to other host plant genera and families. Seven shifts to Peperomia, the sister genus of Piper were detected, indicating that the shift to Peperomia was an easy one compared to the singular shifts to the Chloranthaceae, Siparunaceae and the Piperacean genus Manekia. The potential for close co-evolution of Eois with Piper host plants is therefore bound to be limited to smaller subsets within Neotropical Eois instead of a frequently proposed genus-wide co-evolutionary scenario. In regards to Eois systematics we confirm the monophyly of Neotropical Eois in relation to their Old World counterparts. A tentative biogeographical hypothesis is presented suggesting that Eois originated in tropical Asia and subsequently colonized the Neotropics and Africa. Within Neotropical Eois we were able to identify the existence of six clades not recognized in previous studies and confirm and reinforce the monophyly of all 9 previously delimited infrageneric clades.

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Larval food plants of Australian Larentiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) - a review of available data

Cited by 4 publications

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Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest

Variably hungry caterpillars: predictive models and foliar chemistry suggest how to eat a rainforest

Diversification rates, host plant shifts and an updated molecular phylogeny of Andean Eois moths (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Australia’s Moths and Their Habitats

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