bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/762393; this version posted March 30, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Title page 2 3 Title: Mesoamerica is a cradle and the Brazilian Atlantic Forest is a museum of Neotropical 4 butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Brassolini) 5 6 Authors: Pável Matos-Maraví1,2,3*, Niklas Wahlberg4, André V. L. Freitas5, Phil J. DeVries6, 7 Alexandre Antonelli1,2,7, Carla M. Penz6 8 9 Full correspondence addresses: 10 1 Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 11 Sweden 12 2 Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden 13 3 Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, České 14 Budějovice, Czech Republic 15 4 Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden 16 5 Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 17 Campinas, SP, Brazil 18 6 Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA 19 7 Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, TW9 3AE Richmond, United Kingdom 20 21 * Corresponding author (E-mail:
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