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系统学和系统的分析象征性的Rajah，皇帝，森林皇后和Nawab蝴蝶跨越整个范围从热带非洲到澳大拉西亚地区，建立在现有的大的Charaxes物种的数据库(约220-230个已知物种中的150个)，并新增加了东南亚/E亚洲/澳大拉西亚Polyura组的近完整的物种水平覆盖(约26个物种)。我们将使用这一系统发育假说来重建一个旧大陆热带群的进化史，并使用最先进的多样化比率分析来探索它们的多样性模式。然后，我们将把重点放在印支那亚群岛/澳大拉西亚群岛，在那里，我们可以--第一次--使用几乎完全的物种水平覆盖Charaxes/Polyura蝴蝶，并将它们在广泛和复杂的岛屿环境中的多样化比率与非洲热带动物的多样化比率进行比较，从而推断是什么导致了整个东半球热带地区不同的多样性格局。这些数据将用于稍后阶段的多分类单元荟萃分析。

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.