Circular neighbor joining tree and geographical distribution of the genus <i>Lonomia</i>.

The inner map shows the distribution of 1019 georeferenced records of the genus Lonomia compiled in our database and gray areas represent the biomes where species with medical importance have been found. Red and orange symbols in the map, and branches in the neighbor joining tree depict the species of confirmed (red) or suspected (orange) medical importance; these are listed and numbers after the species name refer to their position on the tree. Black dots depict all the other species in the genus. Country border shape file available at: (https://gadm.org/data.html); terrestrial ecoregions of the world available at: (https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/terrestrial-ecoregions-of-the-world). All species of the genus are numbered in the circular tree from 1 to 60 (clockwise, starting from top-left end of the tree) in reference to species as numbered in S1 Table. This tree was built using 808 DNA barcode records of more than 400bp in the public BOLD dataset DS-LONO2; branch lengths are proportional to genetic divergences (uncorrected p-distances). Colored background areas of the tree represent the three species-groups recognized in this work: the electra-group (blue), obliqua-group (yellow), and achelous-group (green). Left side picture: Lonomia sp. adult (live unidentified specimen from Costa Rica; courtesy of Armin Dett). Right side picture: Lonomia camox 6th instar caterpillar (photo by RR). A traditional vertical representation of this tree is also available at https://itol.embl.de/export/921881233420241575572285.