DNA barcodes from over-a-century-old type specimens shed light on the taxonomy of a group of rare butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Calinaginae)

• Valentina Todisco ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Todisco, Dipendra Nath Basu

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

  * E-mail: valentina.todisco@plus.ac.at

  Affiliation Department of Environment and Biodiversity, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7510-6139

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• Dipendra Nath Basu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Todisco, Dipendra Nath Basu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India

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• Sean W. J. Prosser,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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• Stephen Russell,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Marko Mutanen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ecology and Genetics Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Alberto Zilli,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Blanca Huertas ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BH, KK and RVW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Krushnamegh Kunte ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BH, KK and RVW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India

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• Richard Vane-Wright

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

  ¶‡ BH, KK and RVW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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