Pyrgus communis (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae: Pyrginae)

Locality: USA: CA: Solano County, NE Vallejo, St. Johns Mine, 21 August 1997, Collected by F. Sperling and J. Powell.

DNA number FS-b-901.
Re-extracted by EV Zakharov, DNA number UAFS-1734.

Specimen used in study by:

MS Caterino, RD Reed, MM Kuo and FAH Sperling, 2001. A partitioned likelihood analysis of swallowtail butterfly Phylogeny (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Systematic Biology 50 (2001): 106-127).

N Wahlberg, MF Braby, AVZ Brower, R de Jong, MM Lee, S Nylin, NE Pierce, FAH Sperling, R Vila, A Warren and EV Zakharov, 2005. Synergistic effects of combining morphological and molecular data in resolving the phylogeny of butterflies and skippers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 272 (1572): 1577-1586.

V Nazari, EV Zakharov and FAH Sperling, 2007. Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in review.

Simonsen TJ, Zakharov EV, Djernæs M, Cotton AM, Vane-Wright RI, Sperling FAH [2010]. Phylogenetics and divergence times of Papilioninae (Lepidoptera) with special reference to the enigmatic genera Teinopalpus and Meandrusa. Cladistics (pre publication).

GenBank Accession Numbers for COI-COII AF170857, ND5 DQ351044, 16S DQ351078, EF1a AF173396, and Wingless AY569043.