cells Article Molecular Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of the Butterfly Tribe Aeromachini Tutt (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from China 1, 2, 1 1 1 1 Yuanyuan Li y, Jianqing Zhu y, Chen Ge , Ying Wang , Zimiao Zhao , Shuojia Ma , Ary A. Hoffmann 3 , Nancy M. Endersby 3, Qunxiu Liu 2, Weidong Yu 1 and Weibin Jiang 1,* 1 College of Life Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +86-021-64321928 These authors contributed equally to this work. y Received: 4 March 2019; Accepted: 23 March 2019; Published: 29 March 2019 Abstract: The butterfly tribe Aeromachini Tutt, 1906 is a large group of skippers. In this study, a total of 10 genera and 45 species of putative members of this tribe, which represent most of the generic diversity and nearly all the species diversity of the group in China, were sequenced for two mitochondrial genes and three nuclear genes (2093 bp). The combined dataset was analyzed with maximum likelihood inference using IQtree. We found strong support for monophyly of Aeromachini from China and support for the most recent accepted species in the tribe.