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The origin and taxonomic position of the Crimean endemic Agrodiaetus pjushtchi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) based on the data on karyology, ecology, and molecular phylogenetics

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The geographic ranges, karyotypes, ecological preferences, and mitochondrial DNA polymorphism were analyzed to reveal the origin and taxonomic position of Agrodiaetus pljushtchi and related species of A. damone species group. According to the data obtained, the common ancestor of these species originated in Asia Minor in Late Pliocene, 1.2–1.8 million years ago. In Early Pleistocene (0.8–1.2 million years ago), a representative of this group migrated into the Crimea and gave rise to A. pljushtchi. Another branch originated from the common ancestor, which migrated into Central Asia and Siberia and gave rise to a variety of partly sympatric taxa. Recently, representatives of the Central Asian — Siberian lineage occupied Eastern Europe and approached the area of A. pljushtchi but did not overlap with it. The karyotype n = 67 is an apomorphy of the A. damone species complex. However, this karyotype is not species-specific and cannot be used to differentiate taxa within the complex. The similarity of karyotypes is thus not sufficient to consider A. pljushtchi and A. damone as conspecific taxa. The natural history data support the isolated position of A. pljushtchi, and phylogenetic analysis shows that A. pljushtchi and A. damone are not closely related.

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Original Russian Text © V.A. Lukhtanov, Yu.I. Budashkin, 2007, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2007, Vol. 86, No. 7, pp. 839–845.

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Lukhtanov, V.A., Budashkin, Y.I. The origin and taxonomic position of the Crimean endemic Agrodiaetus pjushtchi (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) based on the data on karyology, ecology, and molecular phylogenetics. Entmol. Rev. 87, 973–979 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873807080039

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