Abstract
In our article “Insects on Plants: Explaining the Paradox of Low Diversity within Specialist Herbivore Guilds” (American Naturalist 179:351–362), themoth image associated with the figure caption on page 362 was incorrect. Although the figure caption “the moth Cyphura swinhoei Joicey & Talbot (Uraniidae) feeds on Endospermum labios, an ant tree in the New Guinea rainforest” was correct at the time, we figured the wrong moth specimen by mistake. The moth figured is Urapteroides astheniata (Guénée). Subsequently, the name of the reared species referred to in the caption has been changed to Cyphura maxima (Swinhoe), an older synonym recognized by Sinnema and Sinnema-Bloemen (2021, p. 68). DNA barcode sequences (Wilson 2012) fromthe correct reared specimen of maxima are available in GenBank as GU695891 and from the astheniata specimen as GU695893. In addition, the host plant species then known as Endospermum labios was placed as a synonym of Endospermum moluccanum by Arias Guerrero and van Welzen (2011). The host plant record is significant, because it is the only known host record for Cyphura maxima and only the third host record for the genus. Cyphura semiobsoleta (Warren) has been recorded feeding on an unidentified Endospermum sp. in New Guinea (Lees and Smith 1992), and Cyphura bifasciata (Butler) has been recorded feeding on Endospermum medullosum and Endospermum moluccanum (as Endospermum formicarum) in the Solomon Islands (Bigger 1988, p. 91; Waterhouse 1997). We thank Siep Sinnema for pointing out the error in the figure, Lauren Helgen and Nicolas Silverson for the image, and the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario for the DNA barcodes.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 438-439 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | American Naturalist |
Volume | 198 |
Issue number | 3 |
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State | Published - Sep 2021 |
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