Diversification in the microlepidopteran genus Mompha (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Momphidae) is explained more by tissue specificity than host plant family.
D. J. Bruzzese, D. L. Wagner, T. Harrison, T. Jogesh, R. P. Overson, N. J. Wickett, R. A. Raguso, K. A. Skogen
This study investigates how hostplant resource shifts, not just hostplant taxonomy, drive diversification in the moth genus Mompha by analyzing phylogenetic and hostplant data.
bioRxiv · Nov 8, 2018Evolutionary Biology