Cryptic Speciation Associated with Geographic and Ecological
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019, 186, 233–249. With 7 figures. Cryptic speciation associated with geographic and ecological divergence in two Amazonian Heliconius Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/186/1/233/5066664 by University of York user on 13 June 2019 butterflies NEIL ROSSER1,2*, , ANDRÉ V. L. FREITAS3, BLANCA HUERTAS4, MATHIEU JORON5, GERARDO LAMAS6, CLAIRE MÉROT7, FRASER SIMPSON8, KEITH R. WILLMOTT9, JAMES MALLET2 and KANCHON K. DASMAHAPATRA1 1Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, Heslington YO10 5DD, UK 2Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 3Departamento de Biologia Animal and Museu de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil 4Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK 5Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175 CNRS - Université de Montpellier - Université Paul Valéry Montpellier - EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France 6Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14–0434, Lima-14, Peru 7IBIS, Université Laval, 1030 Avenue de la Médecine, Québec, Canada 8Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK 9McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Received 23 February 2018; revised 14 May 2018; accepted for publication 27 May 2018 The evolution of reproductive isolation via a switch in mimetic wing coloration has become the paradigm for speci- ation in aposematic Heliconius butterflies. Here, we provide a counterexample to this, by documenting two cryptic species within the taxon formerly considered Heliconius demeter Staudinger, 1897.
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