New record of the butterly Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius) from Oman, with notes abput phylogeographic patterns of E. cnejus and E. osiris (Hopffer) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)

0506018 - BC 2020 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Faltýnek Fric, Zdeněk - Besta, L. - Hula, V. - Vrba, Pavel - Irungbam, Meenakshi - Irungbam, Jatishwor - Ignatev, Nikolai - Marešová, Jana
New record of the butterly Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius) from Oman, with notes abput phylogeographic patterns of E. cnejus and E. osiris (Hopffer) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).
Zoology in the Middle East. Roč. 65, č. 3 (2019), s. 236-244. ISSN 0939-7140. E-ISSN 2326-2680
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GB14-36098G
Grant - others:GA JU(CZ) 038/2019/P
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : Afrotropical region * Oriental region * COI gene
OECD category: Entomology
Impact factor: 0.456, year: 2019
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2019.1632541

We document the occurrence of the Oriental butterfly species Euchrysops cnejus in northern Oman. It is very similar to E. osiris whose distribution extends from the Afrotropical region into Dhofar, southern Oman. Oman is thus the only country where both species co-occur. The two species differ in genitalia and in molecular data. We show that based on the COI marker, E. cnejus and E. osiris are sister species and the Oman populations of E. osiris are closely related to the population from continental Africa. Haplotype diversity is lower in E. cnejus, than in E. osiris. Genetic differences were found between the Australian, Oriental and Oman populations of E. cnejus but available data were not sufficient to clarify the origin of the Oman population.
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