Entomologia Croatica, Vol. 1 No. -, 1995.
Izvorni znanstveni članak
REMARKS AND ADDITION TO „BUTTERFLIES OF EUROPE, 2 INTRODUCTION TO LEPIDOPTEROLOGY“ (ED. O. KUDRNA) 1990
Zdravko Lorković
; III. cvjetno naselje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
A survey of the book mentioned in the tItle is given. The remarks and supplements bear connection to chapters 6 and 9 of the same book are given. The karyogram (Diagram II in chapter 9) was completed to include Lycaenidae, Heliconiidae and lthomiidae (Fig.2). While the modal haploid chromosome number for Hesperidae, Nymphalidae and Pieridae is known to be 31, it was found to be less than n=31 in Papilionidae (n=30), Satyridae (n=29), Lycaenidae (n=24), Helioconiidae (n=21, with n=31 as secondary magnitude); the lowest modal number was round in lthomiinae (n=15 with no weight for n=31). The differences are striking enough for karyotype numbers to be required for a clear-cut delineation of systematic groups in butterflies irrespective of karyotype interpretation. It is interesting that Scott ( 1990) associated Ithomiini, as a tribe, with Danainae, in which subfamily no chromosome number lower than n=3 I would occur in Danainae, as is the case in all other butterfly families. Nevertheless, the inclusion of lthomiinae as a tribus of Danainae appears inadequate inasmuch as on of the hand the low number n=15 becomes quite unexpectedly more frequent than even the very universal modal number n=31, but on the other hand, as a rul, only some of the species of a genus acquire the lower numbers of the secondary peak, whilst the greater part of them share the usual modal number of the family.
Ključne riječi
Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera; chromosome numbers; systematics; phylogeny
Hrčak ID:
284259
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Datum izdavanja:
31.1.1996.
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