Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão, Niklas Wahlberg, Ronaldo Bastos Francini, Ana Maria L Azeredo-Espin, Keith S Brown, Márlon Paluch, David C Lees, André V L Freitas
The tribe Acraeini (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) is believed to comprise between one and seven genera, with the greatest diversity in Africa. The genera Abananote, Altinote, and Actinote (s. str.) are distributed in the Neotropics, while the genera Acraea, Bematistes, Miyana, and Pardopsis have a Palaeotropical distribution. The monotypic Pardopsis use herbaceous plants of the family Violaceae, Acraea and Bematistes feed selectively on plants with cyanoglycosides belonging to many plant families, but preferentially to Passifloraceae, and all Neotropical species with a known life cycle feed on Asteraceae only...
February 2008: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution