Talk:Evolution of butterflies

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Wow, this is pretty bad. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.2.214.123 (talk) 07:35, 26 February 2008 (UTC) :[reply]

Actually this is pathetic. If I knew anything about insect evolution I would help. Also what biologist refers to themselves as an evolutionist? 74.192.200.82 (talk) 04:05, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Saying "this is pathetic" is an euphemism.

In my opinion this article should be deleted or rewritten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.253.6.26 (talk) 19:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This page needs some serious work. Now is a good time to do it, because a new Intelligent Design movie (Metamorphosis by Illustra Media) about butterflies is about to come out. This means that many people will be flocking to this page for answers. Hopefully there is an insect expert on here that can help. Eightbitlegend (talk) 03:40, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The citation to Hall et al. 2004 does not support the Eocene/30-40 million years statement (the Hall paper reports a riodinid dating to 15-25 mbp). The Fossil Lepidoptera page suggests the earliest fossils are from late Eocene, in the Florissant Formation. Recent work by Sohn et al. 2015^[1] might also be useful here. Jcoliver (talk) 18:29, 14 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Labandeira, Conrad C.; Davis, Donald R. (2015). "The fossil record and taphonomy of butterflies and moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera): implications for evolutionary diversity and divergence-time estimates". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0290-8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

Article re-written[edit]

Re-write put in place. Who will add the content and the refs? --Wloveral (talk) 01:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

NEEDS WORK![edit]

This article needs some major rewriting and working. I did a little that i hope will put this article in the right direction. Bugboy52.4 ¦ =-= 02:13, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion on title of taxon evolution pages[edit]

Hi, There is a thread here you may be interested in, about a consistent naming for articles dealing with evolution of taxa. Thanks! --Cyclopia ^talk 17:06, 26 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Sohn, Jae-Cheon; Labandeira, Conrad C.; Davis, Donald R. (2015). "The fossil record and taphonomy of butterflies and moths (Insecta, Lepidoptera): implications for evolutionary diversity and divergence-time estimates". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0290-8.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

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