Data and scripts for: Phylogeny of the Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), butterflies with ant assocations and unusual lichenivorous diets

The Poritiinae are a diverse subfamily of lycaenid butterflies with about 700 species divided into two major groups: the Asian endemic tribe Poritiini, and the African endemic tribe Liptenini. Among these, the Liptenini are notable for their lichenivorous diet and the strong but apparently non-mutualistic ant associations of many species. We present the first molecular phylogeny for this subfamily, based on data from 14 gene regions and including 218 representatives from 177 taxa (approximately 25% of species) in 50 of the 58 (86%) recognized genera. From this analysis, we confirm the division of the subfamily into two tribes, and we rearrange the Liptenini tribe into six subtribes, Durbaniina, Pentilina, Liptenina, Iridanina, and Epitolina, plus a new tribe, Cooksoniina subtrib. n., to fill a gap in the nomenclature revealed by the phylogenetic analysis. We also point to several genera in need of further taxonomic revision. Ancestral range reconstruction could not infer the range of th..., Methods described in Boyle et al., Phylogeny of the Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), butterflies with ant associations and unusual lichenivorous diets., Script files ending in .sh are bash scripts run on a cluster; by removing any lines beginning \"#SBATCH\" or \"module load\" they should run in any environment that runs bash scripts.
Script files ending in .R are R scripts.
Also included are the final aligned and trimmed DNA sequences, both separately (in clipped_fasta.zip) and combined (concatenated_alignments.fas), all in fasta format.
Range and determination data used in ancestral range reconstruction may be found in .phy and .txt files.
The tree produced by IQ-TREE is provided as a .tre file.