Abstract Aim The Mediterranean Basin (MB) is a species‐rich biogeographical region with
many endemic taxa. We analysed the historical patterns of temporal and geographical …

Placed in the centre of the Mediterranean Basin, Italy is a complex biogeographical
crossroad between North Western Europe, Central Europe, Eastern Europe and North …

Aim To reconstruct the evolutionary history of a genus of freshwater beetle with a pan‐
Mediterranean distribution, to test classic hypotheses which proposed a Miocene origin for …

The tenebrionid beetles on 25 circum-Sicilian islands were studied to determine the
influence of island geographical and landscape features on three main intercorrelated …

The genus Blaps is an emblematic group of large flightless beetles adapted to semi‐arid
and arid environments. About 230 species have been described in the subgenus Blaps …

The Aegean archipelago, as an 'evolutionary laboratory of nature', is an ideal model for
research in phylogeography. In this area, the darkling beetles of the genus Dendarus …

Aim Dispersal barriers between areas within some regions have appeared and disappeared
throughout evolutionary time. Here we describe the distributional patterns displayed by three …

Aim This research aimed to study if a transitional character can be postulated for the
tenebrionid beetle (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae) fauna of the Aegean Islands, and to identify …

The geographic distribution of a species is shaped by its biology and by environmental and
palaeogeographic factors that interact at different spatial-temporal scales, which leads to …

1. We used a hyperdiverse invertebrate group, tenebrionid beetles, to test competing
hypotheses about the factors correlated with the spatial variation in species richness and …