supported by a graduate fellowship from Harvard University Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,as well as a Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award in Lepidoptera conservation from the Xerces Society(2017)for studying the spatial ecology of butterflies in Yanzigou valley;ZW and AJ were supported by a Rufford Small Grant(2016)to work on the conservation of B.thaidina;Aspects of the modeling approach used in this research were supported by a grant from the Harvard Global Institute(HG1)to YL,ZW and NEP.
Insect diversity and abundance are in drastic decline worldwide,but quantifying insect populations to better conserve them is a difficult task.Mark-release-recapture(MRR)is widely used as an ecological indicator for i...
The Apollo butterfly, Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus), was common in Europe over 100 years ago, but currently it is considered as near threatened. Different conservation programs have promoted the persistence of this spe...
On the island of Sardinia the lepidopteran Papilio hospiton uses Ferula com- munis as exclusive host plant. However, on the small island of Tavolara, adult females lay eggs on Seseli tortuosum, a plant confined to the...
A key adaptation in insects for dealing with variable environmental conditions is the ability to diapause. The tiger swallowtail butterflies, Papilio glaucus and P. canadensis are ideal species to explore the genetic ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41472028);the Special Funds for Cultivation of Preponderant Disciplines of Anhui Normal University
In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of Parnassius actius(Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parnassinae) was reported. Meanwhile, the phylogenetic position of this Apollo species was inferred from this sequen...
The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Lamproptera curia was determined in the present study. Our findings showed that the mtDNA of L. curia had a typical organization of insect mitochrondrial DNA - being 15277...
The altitudinal distribution of Papilionidae butterflies across the East Himalayan Landscape of West Bengal, India is presented here. 26 butterfly species are known to occur across 11 altitudinal belts. Species Richne...
The butterflies are beautiful creature of nature with great economic importance as pollinator as well as bio-indicator of environments. The present survey was conducted to determine the biology and distribution of but...
Acknowledgments This research was supported in part by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station (Project #01644), and the National Science Foundation (DEB-0716683; DEB- 0918879). Awards from NSF research experience for un- dergraduates (REU; DEB- 0821958) partially supported Matthew Aardema, and Emily Maher. For assistance in the field and/or laboratory we thank Becky Aslakan, Bill Houtz, Angeline Kosnik, Matt Lehnert, Jim Maudsley, Michelle Oberlin, Gabe Ording and Howard Romack. Matthew Aardema was supported in part by College of Natural Sciences undergraduate research award and a Scriber Scholars award in Butterfly Biology and Con- servation (Dept. of Entomology, MSU).
It is generally thought that insects inhabiting lower latitudes are more severely impacted by changes in their thermal environment than are high latitude species. This is attributed to the wider range of temperatures ...