Why are there so many different butterflies? How did they evolve? Is climate change affecting them? How do butterflies colonize islands? Are there species that look the same? These are some of the questions we try to answer in our research. Above all, we are passionate about butterflies, exploration & science!
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New video following the extraordinary trip of the butterfly Vanessa cardui from Northern Europe to the tropical savannah!

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Vila, R., Stefanescu, C. & Sesma, J.M. (2018) Guia de les papallones diürnes de Catalunya. Lynx Edicions, Bellaterra, 508 pages. 

Check out our new website of the Worldwide Painted Lady Migration Project.

Thanks to a Ramón y Cajal fellowship to Gerard Talavera, “The Insect Migration Lab” has become an independent group at IBB

Platania L, Menchetti M, Dinca V, Corbella C, Kay-Lavelle I, Vila R, Wiemers M, Schweiger O, Dapporto L (2020) Assigning occurrence data to cryptic taxa improves climatic niche assessments: Biodecrypt, a new tool tested on European butterflies. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29:1852-1865; DOI: 10.1111/geb.13154

Hinojosa JC, Koubínová D, Dincă V, Hernández-Roldán J, Munguira ML, García-Barros E, Vila M, Alvarez N, Mutanen M & Vila R (2020) Rapid colour shift by reproductive character displacement in Cupido butterflies. Molecular Ecology (published online as early view); DOI: 10.1111/mec.15682 

Kaminski LA, Volkmann L, Callaghan CJ, DeVries PJ, Vila R, (2021) The first known riodinid ‘cuckoo’ butterfly reveals deep-time convergence and parallelism in ant social parasites. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (published online as early view). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa150 

de Freina JJ, Monasterio León, Escobés Jiménez R, Hinojosa JC, & Vila R (2020) Heterogynis Rambur, 1837 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea, Heterogynidae) from Andalusia and the Algarve (Spain and Portugal): a taxonomic and faunistic review. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 67: 75-85. 

Yeray Monasterio

Hinojosa JC, Dapporto L, Brockmann E, Dincă V, Tikhonov V, Grishin N, Lukhtanov VA, Vila R, (2020) Overlooked cryptic diversity in Muschampia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) adds two species to the European butterfly fauna Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (published online ahead of print). DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa171

 

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e-mail: roger.vila@csic.es