Shennongjia–Wushan Mountains—One cryptic glacial refugium introduced by the phylogeographical study of the Geometridae moth Ourapteryx szechuana Wehrli

• Published in: Ecology and evolution Vol. 11; no. 15; pp. 10066 - 10076
• Main Authors: Cheng, Rui, Han, Hongxiang, Xue, Dayong, Zhu, Chaodong, Jiang, Nan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.08.2021; John Wiley and Sons Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Butterflies & moths; Demographics; Differentiation; Divergence; Ecological niches; Glaciation; Glaciology; Haplotypes; Insects; Investigations; Mitochondrial DNA; Mountains; Museums; Original Research; Oscillations; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Phylogeography; Quaternary; Refugia; Sibling species; Zoology; Beijing China; East Asia; Europe; China

The origin and evolution of biodiversity in the Shennongjia and Wushan Mountains, located in central China, are little known. In this study, we used Ourapteryx szechuana, which is widely distributed in China and northern Nepal, to explore whether these mountains acted as glacial refugia during clima...