@article {698, title = {Confirmation du rang sp{\'e}cifique d{\textquoteright}Hipparchia syriaca Staudinger (1871) par {\'e}levage et examen en Gr{\`e}ce du principe d{\textquoteright}exclusion d{\textquoteright}H. fagi et syriaca que Lorkovi{\'c} (1976) avait d{\'e}couvert en Dalmatie (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)}, journal = {Entomologica romanica}, volume = {14}, year = {2009}, chapter = {5}, abstract = {

Based on an examination of the genital armatures of both sexes and the hindwing underside pattern of ♀♀, Lorkovi{\'c}
(1976) demonstrated that Hipparchia syriaca should be considered as a distinct species separate from H. fagi, alcyone and genava.
This has been confirmed by the present study based on the rearing of H. syriaca from Dalmatia. Lorkovi{\'c} (1976) demonstrated that,
in Dalmatia, this species occupied a coastal strip extending up to 700m, from where H. fagi was absent. However, from a study of
the two species in Greece by T.L., the exclusion of the two species was not evident.

}, keywords = {biology of Hipparchia syriaca, Dalmatia, exclusion of syriaca and fagi, Greece, Lorkovi{\'c}, rearing, Satyrinae}, author = {David Jutzeler and Tristan Lafranchis and RUDI VEROVNIK and Guido Volpe} } @article {684, title = {Varying rates of diversification in the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) during the past 20 million years}, journal = {Biological Journal of the Linnean Society}, volume = {97}, year = {2009}, chapter = {346}, abstract = {

The influence of Quarternary glacial cycles on the extant diversity of Holarctic species has been intensively studied.
It has been hypothesized that palaeoclimatic changes are responsible for divergence events in lineages. A constant
improvement in DNA sequencing and modeling methods, as well as palaeoclimatic reconstruction, permit a deeper
exploration of general causes of speciation in geological time. In the present study, we sampled, as exhaustively as
possible, the butterflies belonging to the genus Melitaea (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), which are widely spread in
the Palaearctic region. We conducted analyses to assess the phylogeny of the genus and estimated the timing of
divergence and the most likely distribution of ancestral populations. The results obtained indicate that the
systematics of the genus is in need of revision and that the diversity of the genus has been profoundly shaped by
palaeoenvironmental changes during its evolutionary history. The present study also emphasizes that, when
employed with caveats, major palaeoenvironmental events could represent very powerful tools for the calibration
of the dating of divergences using molecular data.

}, keywords = {colonization {\textendash} divergence time {\textendash} palaeoclimate {\textendash} speciation rate {\textendash} systematic}, author = {Julien Leveneu and Anton Chichvarkhin and Niklas Wahlberg} } @article {514, title = {Molecular systematics and phylogeny of the {\textquoteleft}Marbled Whites{\textquoteright} (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Melanargia Meigen)}, journal = {Systematic EntomologySystematic Entomology}, volume = {DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2009.00493.x}, year = {2009}, keywords = {Melanargia}, author = {Nazari, Ten Hagen, Bozano V., W., G.} }