A new cryptic Sympistis from eastern North America revealed by novel larval phenotype and host plant association (Lepidoptera,Noctuidae, Oncocnemidinae) |
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| Authors: | Brigette Zacharczenko David L Wagner Mary Jane Hatfield |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043, USA ; 2.3079 Coldwater Creek Road, Cresco, Iowa, 52136, USA |
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| Abstract: | A Triosteum-feeding species of Sympistis is described from eastern North America: Sympistis forbesi
sp. n. Identity of the new species is most reliably determined from larval morphology and host plant association—both adult scaling and genitalic characters overlap with those of Sympisitis chionanthi, a Chionanthus and Fraxinus feeder. |
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| Keywords: | Cryptic species Triosteum Caprifoliaceae iridoid glycosides unequal evolutionary rates |
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