Phylogeography and DNA-based species delimitation provide insight into the taxonomy of the polymorphic rose chafer Protaetia (Potosia) cuprea species complex (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) in the Western Palearctic

• Dominik Vondráček ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominik Vondráček, Petr Šípek

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dominik.vondracek@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3699-9245

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• Aneta Fuchsová ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Dirk Ahrens ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Arthropoda, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

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• David Král ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Petr Šípek

  Contributed equally to this work with: Dominik Vondráček, Petr Šípek

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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