Causes of Old world tropical diversity patterns: the Rajah, Emperor, Forest Queen and Nawab nymphalid butterflies (Charaxes)

我们将提出第一个全面的分子遗传学和系统分析的象征性拉贾，皇帝，森林女王和纳瓦布蝴蝶跨越其整个范围从热带非洲到澳大利亚地区，建立在大型现有的数据集Charaxes物种（c。C的150。220-230已知物种）和新增加的几乎完整的物种水平覆盖的东南/东亚/澳大拉西亚Polyura组（c。26种）。我们将使用这种系统发育假说重建旧大陆热带群体的进化历史，并使用最先进的多样化率分析来探索其多样性模式。然后，我们将专注于印度/澳大利亚群岛，我们可以-第一次-使用几乎完整的物种水平覆盖Charaxes / Polyura蝴蝶，并将其多样化率与非洲热带动物群在广泛而复杂的岛屿环境中进行对比，推断是什么导致了旧世界热带地区的不同多样性模式。这些数据将在稍后阶段用于多分类群Meta分析。

We will present the first comprehensive molecular phylogeny and systematic analyses of the emblematic Rajah, Emperor, Forest Queen and Nawab butterflies spanning their entire range from tropical Africa to the Australasian region, building on large existing datasets of Charaxes species (c. 150 of the c. 220-230 known species) and newly adding near-complete species level coverage for the SE / E Asian / Australasian Polyura group (c. 26 species). We will use this phylogenetic hypothesis to reconstruct the evolutionary history of an Old World tropical group and use state-of-the-art diversification rate analyses to explore their diversity patterns. Then we will focus on the Indomalayan/ Australasian archipelago for which we can -for the first time- use an almost complete species level coverage for Charaxes / Polyura butterflies and contrast their diversification rates across a wide and complex insular setting with that of the Afrotropical fauna, making inferences on what causes different diversity patterns across the Old World tropics. These data will be used for multi-taxon meta analyses at a later stage.