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From: Mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenetic analysis with Sanger and next-generation sequencing shows that, in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, northwestern Costa Rica, the skipper butterfly named Urbanus belli(family Hesperiidae) comprises three morphologically cryptic species

Figure 2

Map of the ACG illustrating the distribution of the three species in the Urbanus bernikerni complex. Urbanus segnestami (orange circles) has the most prominent presence in dry forest (Pacific side of Cordillera Guanacaste), but extends throughout the rain forest (mostly on the Atlantic side of Cordillera Guanacaste) part of ACG as well. Urbanus bernikerni (red) has its most prominent presence in the rain forest, but extends well into dry forest. Urbanus ehakernae (blue) is exclusively rain forest; the collections at Pailas, which appear to be in the Guanacaste dry forest part of ACG, are actually in a tongue of northeastern rain forest wrapping around the Rincon de la Vieja volcanic complex.

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BMC Ecology and Evolution

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