Danaini
Niklas Wahlberg and Andrew V. Z. BrowerThis tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms.
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The Danainae are a pantropical group with their main area of diversification in southeast Asia and Australasia.Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
The tree is based upon the morphological cladistic analysis of Ackery & Vane-Wright (1984) and largely corroborated by molecular data (Brower & Wahlberg unpubl.)
References
Ackery PR, and Vane-Wright RI. 1984. Milkweed butterflies. British Museum (Natural History), London.
Vane-Wright RI, Boppr? M, and Ackery PR. 2002. Miriamica, a new genus of milkweed butterflies with unique androconial organs (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241: 255-267.
About This Page
Niklas Wahlberg
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
Correspondence regarding this page should be directed to Niklas Wahlberg at and Andrew V. Z. Brower at
Page copyright © 2006 Niklas Wahlberg and
- First online 25 September 2006
- Content changed 25 March 2007
Citing this page:
Wahlberg, Niklas and Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2007. Danaini http://tolweb.org/Danaini/27571/2007.03.25 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
. Version 25 March 2007 (under construction).