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Annual Review of Entomology

Volume 62, 2017

Phylogeny and Evolution of Lepidoptera

Abstract

Until recently, deep-level phylogeny in Lepidoptera, the largest single radiation of plant-feeding insects, was very poorly understood. Over the past two decades, building on a preceding era of morphological cladistic studies, molecular data have yielded robust initial estimates of relationships both within and among the ∼43 superfamilies, with unsolved problems now yielding to much larger data sets from high-throughput sequencing. Here we summarize progress on lepidopteran phylogeny since 1975, emphasizing the superfamily level, and discuss some resulting advances in our understanding of lepidopteran evolution.

Keyword(s): butterfly, classification, Hexapoda, insect, molecular systematics, moth, systematics
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Phylogeny and Evolution of Lepidoptera
Annual Review of Entomology 62, 265 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-031616-035125
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