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Contrasting Patterns of Temporal Diversification in Neotropical Butterflies: An Overview

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Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes

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The exuberant diversity present in the Neotropics naturally leads to questions about its age of origin. The butterfly fossil record is so depauperate that most of what we know today about the age of butterflies is based on relaxed clock estimates. Here we compile relaxed clock-based crown age estimates for clades of Neotropical butterflies from 6 families, as well as age estimates for more than 400 pairs of sister species included in 102 genera. Alternative perspectives of the temporal diversification of the Neotropics based on these two sources of evidence are contrasted. While crown ages of more inclusive groups range back to the Miocene and Oligocene, most species pairs diverged within the Pleistocene.

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We thank editors Valentí Rull and Ana Carnaval for inviting us to write a contribution for this book. IJGO dedicates this chapter to her dear friend Kelly Jean Sherman whose inquisitiveness and love knows no boundaries. Many thanks also to Sebastián Padrón, Fabien Condamine, Nicolas Chazot, Marianne Espeland and Marianne Elias for responding to our requests and allowing us to use unpublished data. We are also grateful to Angel Viloria and Juan Jose Morrone for their observations on our manuscript.

Support for work in AVZB’s lab at MTSU was provided through a collaborative grant, Dimensions US-Biota-São Paulo: Assembly and evolution of the Amazon biota and its environment: an integrated approach, supported by the US National Science Foundation (NSF DEB 1241056), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP Grant 2012/50260-6).

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Brower, A.V.Z., Garzón-Orduña, I.J. (2020). Contrasting Patterns of Temporal Diversification in Neotropical Butterflies: An Overview. In: Rull, V., Carnaval, A. (eds) Neotropical Diversification: Patterns and Processes. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31167-4_9

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