Roger Vila

Roger Vila, Entomologist, USA

• Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), Passeig Marı´tim de la Barceloneta, 37, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

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• 5 taxon names authored by Roger Vila

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• , Piñas, F. & Clavijo, J.A. 2004: A new species of Diaphania Hübner, 1818 from Ecuador (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae). Zootaxa 539: 1–8. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Als, T.D., , Kandul, N.P., Nash, D.R., Yen, S.-H., Hsu, Y.-F., Mignault, A.A., Boomsma, J.J., & Pierce, N.E. 2004. The evolution of alternative parasitic life histories in large blue butterflies. Nature 432: 386–390. DOI: 10.1038/NATURE03020 Reference page. 

• Lukhtanov, V.A., & Kandul, N.P. 2006. Rearrangement of the Agrodiaetus dolus species group (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) using a new cytological approach and molecular data. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37 (3): 325–334. Full paper (PDF) DOI: 10.1163/187631206788838563 Reference page. 
• Braby, M.F., & Pierce, N.E. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 147(2): 239–275. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00218.x . Reference page. 

• , Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G., Gil-T., F. & Pierce, N.E., 2010. How common are dot-like distributions? Taxonomical oversplitting in western European Agrodiaetus (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) revealed by chromosomal and molecular markers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101(1): 130–154. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01481.x Reference page. 

• , Bell, C.D., Macniven, R., Goldman-Huertas, B., Ree, R.H., Marshall, C.R., Bálint, Z., Johnson, K., Benyamini, D. & Pierce, N.E. 2011. Phylogeny and palaeoecology of Polyommatus blue butterflies show Beringia was a climate-regulated gateway to the New World. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278(1719): 2737–2744. PDF. Reference page. 
• Dincă, V., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G. & 2011. Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies. Nature communications 2: 324. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1329 . Reference page. 
• Dincă, V., Dapporto, L. & 2011. A combined genetic‐morphometric analysis unravels the complex biogeographical history of Polyommatus icarus and Polyommatus celina Common Blue butterflies. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3921–3935. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05223.x . Reference page. 
• Ugelvig, L.V., , Pierce, N.E. & Nash, D.R., 2011. A phylogenetic revision of the Glaucopsyche section (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with special focus on the Phengaris–Maculinea clade. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(1): 237–243.Reference page. 

• Hernández-Roldán, J.L., Munguira, M.L., Wagner, W. & 2012. Comparative analysis and taxonomic use of the morphology of immature stages and natural history traits in European species of Pyrgus Hübner (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae, Pyrginae). Zootaxa 3470: 1–71. Preview Reference page. 

• Sañudo-Restrepo, C.P., Dincă, V., Talavera, G. & 2013. Biogeography and systematics of Aricia butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(1): 369–379. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.010 . Reference page. 
• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Pierce, N.E. & , 2013. Establishing criteria for higher-level classification using molecular data: the systematics of Polyommatus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Cladistics 29(2): 166–192. Reference page. 
• Dincă, V., Runquist, M., Nilsson, M. & 2013. Dispersal, fragmentation, and isolation shape the phylogeography of the European lineages of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) ripartii (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109(4): 817–829. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12096 . Reference page. 
• Dincă, V., Wiklund, C., Lukhtanov, V.A., Kodandaramaiah, U., Norén, K., Dapporto, L., Wahlberg, N., & Friberg, M. 2013. Reproductive isolation and patterns of genetic differentiation in a cryptic butterfly species complex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26(10): 2095–2106. DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12211 . Reference page. 
• Talavera, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Rieppel, L., Pierce, N.E. & , 2013. In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: The recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69(3): 469–478. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.08.004 . Reference page. 

• de Freina, J.J., Monasterio Léon, Y., Antonietty, C.A. & 2015. Notes on the biology, distribution and taxonomy of Chondrostega Lederer, 1857 in the Iberian Peninsula with a description of the southern Spanish Chondrostega escobesae sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae, Chondrosteginae). Entomologische Zeitschrift, 125(4): 195–207. Reference page. 

• Hernández-Roldán, J.L., Dapporto, L., Dincă, V., Vicente, J.C., Hornett, E.A., Šíchová, J., Lukhtanov, V.A., Talavera, G. & , 2016. Integrative analyses unveil speciation linked to host plant shift in Spialia butterflies. Molecular Ecology 25(17): 4267–4284. DOI: 10.1111/mec.13756 . Reference page. 

• Mérit, X., Manil, L., & Wiemers, M. 2017. Inter-island differentiation of Leptotes (Cyclyrius) webbianus (Brullé, 1839) in the Canary Islands (Spain), with description of two new subspecies from La Palma and Gran Canaria (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 45(179): 513–520. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Espeland, M., Breinholt, J.W., Willmott, K.R., Warren, A.D., , Toussaint, E.F.A., Maunsell, S.C., Aduse-Poku, K., Talavera, G., Eastwood, R.G., Jarzyna, M.A., Guralnick, R., Lohman, D.J., Pierce, N.E. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2018. A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies. Current Biology 28(5): 770–778. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.061 Reference page. 
• Wiemers, M., Balletto, E., Dincă, V., Fric, Z.F., Lamas, G., Lukhtanov, V.A., Munguira, M.L., van Swaay, C.A.M., , Vliegenthart, A., Wahlberg, N. & Verovnik, R. 2018. An updated checklist of the European Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea). Zookeys, 811: 9–45. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.811.28712 Reference page. 

• Ryan, S.F., Lombaert, E., Espeset, A., , Talavera, G., Dincă, V., Doellman, M.M., Renshaw, M.A., Eng, M.W., Hornett, E.A., Li, Y., Pfrender, M.E. & Shoemaker, D., 2019. Global invasion history of the agricultural pest butterfly Pieris rapae revealed with genomics and citizen science. PNAS 116(40), 20015–20024. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1907492116 Reference page. 
• Toussaint, E.F.A., , Yago, M., Chiba, H., Warren, A.D., Aduse-Poku, K., Storer, C., Dexter, K.M., Maruyama, K., Lohman, D.J. & Kawahara, A.Y. 2019. Out of the Orient: Post-Tethyan transoceanic and trans-Arabian routes fostered the spread of Baorini skippers in the Afrotropics. Systematic Entomology 44(4): 926–938. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12365 Reference page. 

• Kaminski, Volkmann, Callaghan, Devries & , 2020. The first known Riodinid ‘cuckoo’ butterfly reveals deep-time convergence and parallelism in ant social parasites. Zoo. J. Linn. Soc 20: 1-20. Reference page. 

• Hinojosa, J.C., Dapporto, L., Brockmann, E., Dincă, V., Tikhonov, V., Grishin, N., Lukhtanov, V.A. & 2020. Overlooked cryptic diversity in Muschampia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) adds two species to the European butterfly fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX, 1–13. With 4 figures. ResearchGate Reference page. 
• et al., 2021. Reassessment of Poecilocampa navalagamellae Expósito, 2004 stat. nov. and its distribution in the Iberian Peninsula (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae, Poecilocampinae). Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 131(4): 223-238. ResearchGate. Reference page. 

• Schifani, E., Alicata, A., Borowiec, L., García, F., Gentile, V., Gómez, K., Nalini, E., Rigato, F., Schär, S., Scupola, A., & Menchetti, M. 2023. Unrecognized for centuries: distribution and sexual caste descriptions of the West European Aphaenogaster species of the subterranea group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zookeys 1153ː 141–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1153.98297 Reference page.