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Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic analysis with Sanger and next-generation sequencing shows that, in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, the skipper butterfly named Urbanus belli (family Hesperiidae) comprises three morphologically cryptic species

Bertrand, Claudia; Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Burns, John M; Gibson, Joel F; Shokralla, Shadi; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad (2014-07-09)

Although no morphological traits appear to distinguish among the three, congruent nuclear and mitochondrial lineage patterns show that “Urbanus belli” in ACG is a complex of three sympatric species. A single strain of ...

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