Larval foodplant and other effects on troidine guild composition (Papilionidae) in southeastern Brazil

Beatríz, Ana; Morais, B. de; Brown, Keith S.

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“…S2). Interestingly, convergence was also detected within the Parides genus, for example between Parides photinus and Parides montezuma , which reinforces the hypothesis of a Müllerian mimicry ring within the Parides genus (41). Convergence was also found between Southeast Asian species Graphium xenocles and one form of Papilio clytia , both displaying a white color with contrasting black venation and an orange dot on the hindwing.…”

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Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

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Condamine

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Ecological interactions may fuel phenotypic diversification in sympatric species. While competition can enhance trait divergence, other ecological interactions may promote convergence in sympatric species. Within butterflies, evolutionary convergences in wing color patterns have been reported between distantly-related species, especially in females from palatable species, where mimetic color patterns are promoted by predator communities shared with defended species living in sympatry. Wing color patterns are also often involved in species recognition in butterflies, and divergence in this trait has been reported in closely-related species living in sympatry as a result of reproductive character displacement. Here we investigate the effect of sympatry between species on the convergence vs. divergence of their wing color patterns in relation to phylogenetic distance, focusing on the iconic swallowtail butterflies (family Papilionidae). We developed a new unsupervised machine-learning-based method to estimate phenotypic distances among wing color patterns from 337 species allowing to finely quantify morphological diversity at global scale within and among species, allowing to compute pairwise phenotypic distances between sympatric and allopatric species pairs. We found that sympatry promoted strong convergence, while divergence in sympatry was less frequent and weaker. The effect of sympatry on convergence was stronger on females than males, suggesting that differential selective pressures acting on the two sexes drove sexual dimorphism. Our results highlight the significant effect of ecological interactions driven by predation pressures on trait diversification in Papilionidae and evidence the interaction between phylogenetic proximity and ecological interactions in sympatry acting on macroevolutionary patterns of phenotypic diversification.

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Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

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Condamine

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“…Indeed, female-limited Batesian mimicry has indeed long been documented in Papilionidae ( 20 , 42 ), and our study recovers well-studied cases, such as the documented Batesian mimicry between Amazonian unpalatable Parides species, and their Papilio mimics—see for example, the black pattern with conspicuous red spots in the unpalatable P. photinus and its mimic P. erostratus ( 18 ) ( SI Appendix , Table S5 ). Interestingly, convergence was also detected within the genus Parides , for example, between P. photinus and Parides montezuma , supporting the hypothesis of a Müllerian mimicry ring within the genus Parides ( 43 ). Convergence was also found between the Southeast Asian species Graphium xenocles and a form of Papilio clytia , both displaying white coloration with contrasting black venation and an orange spot on the hindwing.…”

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Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

Puissant,

Chotard,

Condamine

et al. 2023

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Ecological interactions can promote phenotypic diversification in sympatric species. While competition can enhance trait divergence, other ecological interactions may promote convergence in sympatric species. Within butterflies, evolutionary convergences in wing color patterns have been reported between distantly related species, especially in females of palatable species, where mimetic color patterns are promoted by predator communities shared with defended species living in sympatry. Wing color patterns are also often involved in species recognition in butterflies, and divergence in this trait has been reported in closely related species living in sympatry as a result of reproductive character displacement. Here, we investigate the effect of sympatry between species on the convergence vs. divergence of their wing color patterns in relation to phylogenetic distance, focusing on the iconic swallowtail butterflies (family Papilionidae). We developed an unsupervised machine learning–based method to estimate phenotypic distances among wing color patterns of 337 species, enabling us to finely quantify morphological diversity at the global scale among species and allowing us to compute pairwise phenotypic distances between sympatric and allopatric species pairs. We found phenotypic convergence in sympatry, stronger among distantly related species, while divergence was weaker and restricted to closely related males. The convergence was stronger among females than males, suggesting that differential selective pressures acting on the two sexes drove sexual dimorphism. Our results highlight the significant effect of ecological interactions driven by predation pressures on trait diversification in Papilionidae and provide evidence for the interaction between phylogenetic proximity and ecological interactions in sympatry, acting on macroevolutionary patterns of phenotypic diversification.

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“…Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade -ICMBio Processo de Avaliação do Risco de Extinção da Fauna Brasileira História Natural Espécie migratória? Não Morais & Brown (1992), sugerem que Parides agavus é limitada a habitats úmidos e sombreados. Utiliza preferencialmente Aristholochia triagularis (Cham., 1832) (Aristolochiaceae) como planta hospedeira, onde as fêmeas colocam seus ovos.…”

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Arthur Brant

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Larval foodplant and other effects on troidine guild composition (Papilionidae) in southeastern Brazil

Cited by 9 publications

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Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

Convergence in sympatric swallowtail butterflies reveals ecological interactions as a key driver of worldwide trait diversification

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