TY - JOUR
T1 - Welcome back Mr. Rudkin
T2 - Differentiating Papilio zelicaon and Papilio polyxenes in Southern California (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
AU - Shiraiwa, Kojiro
AU - Grishin, Nick V.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Vince Lee (California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA) and Weiping Xie (Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA) for the sampling of coloro and rudkini holotypes, respectively, and to Qian Cong for help with DNA barcoding. We would like to thank Michael Wall and Jim Barrian of San Diego Natural History Museum for generously making zelicaon and polyxenes specimens available for examination. Thanks to John Calhoun for providing information about Charles N. Rudkin’s biography. We acknowledge Jonathan Pelham for the critical review of the manuscript and helpful suggestions. This work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health [GM127390 to N.V.G.] and the Welch Foundation [I-1505 to N.V.G.].
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PY - 2020/11/11
Y1 - 2020/11/11
N2 - We studied wing pattern characters to distinguish closely related sympatric species Papilio zelicaon Lucas, 1852 and Papilio polyxenes Fabricius, 1775 in Southern California, and developed a morphometric method based on the ventral black postmedian band. Application of this method to the holotype of Papilio [Zolicaon variety] Coloro W. G. Wright. 1905. the name currently applied to the P. polyxenes populations, revealed that it is a P. zelicaon specimen. The name for western US polyxenes subspecies thus becomes Papilio polyxenes ritdkini (F. & R. Chermock, 1981). reinstated status, and we place coloro as a junior subjective synonym of P. zelicaon. Furthermore, we sequenced mitochondrial DNACOI barcodes of rudkim and coloro holotypes and compared them with those of polyxenes and zelicaon specimens, confirming rudkini as polyxenes and coloro as zelicaon.
AB - We studied wing pattern characters to distinguish closely related sympatric species Papilio zelicaon Lucas, 1852 and Papilio polyxenes Fabricius, 1775 in Southern California, and developed a morphometric method based on the ventral black postmedian band. Application of this method to the holotype of Papilio [Zolicaon variety] Coloro W. G. Wright. 1905. the name currently applied to the P. polyxenes populations, revealed that it is a P. zelicaon specimen. The name for western US polyxenes subspecies thus becomes Papilio polyxenes ritdkini (F. & R. Chermock, 1981). reinstated status, and we place coloro as a junior subjective synonym of P. zelicaon. Furthermore, we sequenced mitochondrial DNACOI barcodes of rudkim and coloro holotypes and compared them with those of polyxenes and zelicaon specimens, confirming rudkini as polyxenes and coloro as zelicaon.
KW - Deseit. sister species
KW - Field marks
KW - Swallowtail butterflies
KW - Taxonomy
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U2 - 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.3
DO - 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.3
M3 - Article
C2 - 33311178
AN - SCOPUS:85096055169
SN - 1175-5326
VL - 4877
SP - 422
EP - 428
JO - Zootaxa
JF - Zootaxa
IS - 3
ER -