Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata).
Published in Diversity, 2022
Recommended citation: Standring, S.; Sánchez-Herrera, M.; Guillermo-Ferreira, R.;Ware, J.L.; Vega-Sánchez, Y.M.; Clement, R.;Drury, J.P.; Grether, G.F.; González-Rodríguez, A.; Mendoza-Cuenca, L.; et al. Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata). Diversity 2022, 14, 757. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14090757 https://doi.org/10.3390/d14090757
Rubyspot damselflies are beautiful Calopterygids that often have red spots on their wings. Led by the brilliant Sam Standring with some top-notch collaborators, we built a phylogeny of this genus and its sister group Mnesarete. We found that the rubyspot was lost four times and that the ancestors of this group were forest-dwellers.
Recommended citation: Standring, S.; Sánchez-Herrera, M.; Guillermo-Ferreira, R.;Ware, J.L.; Vega-Sánchez, Y.M.; Clement, R.;Drury, J.P.; Grether, G.F.; González-Rodríguez, A.; Mendoza-Cuenca, L.; et al. Evolution and Biogeographic History of Rubyspot Damselflies (Hetaerininae: Calopterygidae: Odonata). Diversity 2022, 14, 757. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14090757