Abstract The genus Piper (Family Piperaceae), consisting of more than 2000 species
worldwide, is one of the most speciose genera of flowering plants that belong to the broad …

Our study aims to investigate the relationships of the major lineages within the moth family
Geometridae, with a focus on the poorly studied Oenochrominae-Desmobathrinae complex …

We analysed a molecular dataset of 1206 Geometroidea terminal taxa. In this paper we
focus on New World taxa, with 102 Nearctic terminal taxa (97 of which have not previously …

Biological radiations provide unique opportunities to understand the evolution of
biodiversity. One such radiation is the pepper plant family Piperaceae, an early-diverging …

Species richness in tropical forests is correlated with other dimensions of diversity, including
the diversity of plant–herbivore interactions and the phytochemical diversity that influences …

We present the first dated molecular phylogeny of the Cerurinae moths (Notodontidae),
based on sequence data for 666 loci generated by anchored hybrid enrichment. Monophyly …

The genus Eois Hübner (Geometridae: Larentiinae) comprises 254 valid species, 217 of
which were described from the Neotropics and 31 of those having their type locality in Brazil …

Lepidoptera, an order of insects traditionally linked to the aerial habitat, are much more
diverse in their living environment than the clichéd image we may have of them. The imago …

Lepidoptera are a highly diverse group of herbivorous insects; however, some superfamilies
have relatively few species. Two alternative hypotheses for drivers of Lepidoptera diversity …

Aim Latitudinal clines in dietary specialization and range size are used to explain
biodiversity distributions at large spatial scales, such as the latitudinal diversity gradient. The …