Taxacom: Pacific damselflies

[Michael Heads]

A paper published to-day in Mol Phylogen Evol by Saxton et al discusses
damselflies:

We used the endemic damselfly genera *Nesobasis, Nikoulabasis,* and
*Vanuatubasis* found across both Fiji and Vanuatu*.* Knowledge of the
geologic history of the region was used to inform our understanding of the
evolution of these genera. Both archipelagos used to be part of the Vitiaz
arc which spanned from the Solomon Islands to Tonga and began to break
apart 10-12 Ma. Results of our divergence-time estimations and
biogeographic reconstructions support that the breakup of this arc acted as
a significant vicariance event in the evolution of these taxa.

I've been supporting Fiji - Vanuatu vicariance in many publications, and
it's good to see some discussion of the idea at last.

Michael Heads
-- 
Dunedin, New Zealand.

My books:

*Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand. *Taylor and Francis/CRC, Boca
Raton FL. 2017.
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*Biogeography of Australasia:  A molecular analysis*. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. 2014. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambridge.org%2F9781107041028&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C310ffeb36a8241ebb68408db6081f869%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638209883587410416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=pzvW2wUOhq9LiiVU32KSOQ9sTbBjU5swVjjKe8PFG%2BU%3D&reserved=0


*Molecular panbiogeography of the tropics. *University of California Press,
Berkeley. 2012. https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucpress.edu%2Fbook.php%3Fisbn%3D9780520271968&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C310ffeb36a8241ebb68408db6081f869%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638209883587410416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7D8IICKaRlWZ0ohFrpIMbbWb05QXTa3mv9oC5JTle%2F4%3D&reserved=0


*Panbiogeography: Tracking the history of life*. Oxford University Press,
New York. 1999. (With R. Craw and J. Grehan).
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