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Figure 1. Adult of Gonipterus platensis collected by VC-P and CMP in the city of Quito. Photo by VC-P with an Olympus Tough TG6 digital camera.
Figure 2. Maximum likelihood tree of a fragment of the COI gene of species of the Gonipterus scutellatus complex. Numbers at the nodes indicate support values from the SH-like approximate likelihood ratio test (SH-aLRT), the Bayesian-like transformation of aLRT (aBayes test), and the ultrafast bootstrap method. Terminal labels indicate the GenBank accessions, followed by sample codes. Clade classification follows Mapondera et al. (2012). Values of nucleotide (π) and haplotype (H ) diversity for each of the six species examined are indicated below the species names.
Figure 3. Predicted distribution of Gonipterus platensisin its introduced range of South America. The inset shows a focus on Ecuador. Each model was calibrated to the local environmental conditions of the introduced range. Warmer colors of predicted distribution (i.e., red) indicate higher environmental suitability. Niche model predictions including occurrences are included in the Appendix, Fig. A1.
Figure 4. Boxplots showing the distribution for environmental features characterizing the introduced ranges of Gonipterus platensis . Brown = Ecuador and teal = South America. Median: heavy line; 25% and 75% quartiles: edges of box; 5% and 95% quartiles: whiskers; observed values included as points to help visualize density.