Out of the Andes: patterns of diversification in clearwing butterflies

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Summary

The role of the Andes in the evolution of a diverse Neotropical insect group, the clearwing butterflies, is studied and it is shown that both genera likely originated at middle elevations in the Andean mountains in the Middle Miocene, contrasting with most published results in vertebrates that point to a lowland origin.

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Published
2009-04-01
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Keywords

Vicariance, Biology, Biodiversity, Parapatric speciation, Ecology

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