Paul Frandsen

Oct 26, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Paul Frandsen |Brigham Young |C. Riley

Keywordsdance flies, Diptera:Empididae, MongoliaAbstractDance flies from the super family Empidoidea (Diptera:Empididae, Hybotidae) were collected from western Mongolia in June and July 2009. Historical published records of Empididae in Mongolia along with unpublished, more recently collected records from the Selenge River Basin were compared with the samples from western Mongolia. Thirteen genera were identified from western Mongolia in 2009, with eight of these new for the country.

Jun 22, 2024 | scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Paul Frandsen |Brigham Young

May 15, 2023 | nature.com | Akito Y. Kawahara |David Plotkin |Fabien L. Condamine |Mariana P. Braga |Paul Frandsen |Hannah L. Owens | +34 more

AbstractButterflies are a diverse and charismatic insect group that are thought to have evolved with plants and dispersed throughout the world in response to key geological events. However, these hypotheses have not been extensively tested because a comprehensive phylogenetic framework and datasets for butterfly larval hosts and global distributions are lacking.