Jian-Qing Zhu

• MS
• Engineer at Shanghai Zoological park

Wolbachia, one of the most ubiquitous heritable symbionts in lepidopteran insects, can cause mitochondrial introgression in related host species. We recently found mito‐nuclear discordance in the Lepidopteran tribe Tagiadini Mabille 1878 from which Wolbachia has not been reported. In this study, we found that 13 of the 46 species of Tagiadini speci...

The butterfly tribe Tagiadini Mabille, 1878 is a large group of skippers. Although there are a few species which are limited in distribution to some countries in the Oriental or Afrotropical region, the main radiation of the tribe is in China. In the present study, we constructed the first detailed molecular phylogeny of the Chinese species in the...

Two genera, eleven species and two subspecies of butterflies were reported for the first time from Yunnan Province, China. The two genera are Tapena Moore, [1881] and Pirdana Distant, 1886 of Hesperiidae. The eleven species are Tapena thwaitesi Moore, [1881], Pirdana hyela (Hewitson, 1860) and Iton semamora (Moore, [1866]) of Hesperiidae, Allotinus...

Wolbachia is arguably one of the most ubiquitous heritable symbionts among insects and understanding its transmission dynamics is crucial for understanding why it is so common. While previous research has studied the transmission pathways of Wolbachia in several insect lineages including Lepidoptera, this study takes advantage of data collected fro...

We characterized the gut microbial composition and relative abundance of gut bacteria in the larvae and adults of Pieris canidia by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The gut microbiota structure was similar across the life stages and sexes. The comparative functional analysis on P. canidia bacterial communities with PICRUSt showed the enrichment of several...

Simple Summary Wolbachia pipientis is a maternally inherited endosymbiont of arthropods and filarial nematodes, and was reported to occur in Paederus fuscipes, a beetle that causes dermatitis linearis and conjunctivitis in humans when they come in contact with skin. In this study, we report the phylogenetic position and density dynamics of Wolbachi...

Simple Summary Pollinators are important to the sustainability of human society, but butterflies are among the less studied pollinators. Yunnan Province in Southwest China is a region with high diversity of butterflies, but the pollinating species remain poorly understood. Understanding the species assemblage and spatial distribution pattern is the...

Two genera and 7 species of butterflies were reported for the first time from the south of Yunnan province, China. The 2 genera are Iton de Niceéville，1895 and Pamela Hemming, 1935. The 7 species are Choaspes subcaudatus (C. & R. Felder, 1867), Iton watsonii (de Nicéville, 1890), Ctenoptilum multiguttatum de Nicéville, 1890 and Thoressa masoni (Moo...

A taxonomical note on the genus Rohana Moore, 1880 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Apaturinae) from China is given based on examination of 4 known species in the country. Rohana tonkiniana Fruhstor-fer, 1906 is reported as a new record for China. Keys to species based on male morphology, female morphology, and male genitalia are proposed. Adults and gen...

Laena hongqiao sp. n. is described from Shanghai. This discovery expands the provincial distribution of the huge tenebrionid genus Laena in mainland China, and enriches the knowledge of the species diversity in Shanghai. A key modified from Schawaller 2008 and Wei & Ren 2018 is provided to include this new species.

The butterfly tribe Aeromachini Tutt, 1906 is a large group of skippers. In this study, a total of 10 genera and 45 species of putative members of this tribe, which represent most of the generic diversity and nearly all the species diversity of the group in China, were sequenced for two mitochondrial genes and three nuclear genes (2093 bp). The com...

The butterfly tribe Baorini Doherty, 1886 is a large group of skippers. In this study, a total of 8 genera and 41 species of putative members of this tribe, which represent most of the generic diversity and nearly all the species diversity of the group in China, were sequenced for two mitochondrial genes and three nuclear genes (2084 bp). Phylogene...

The genus Sinthusa Moore, 1884 (Theclinae: Deudorigini) from China is tentatively reviewed, based upon the wing-characters in both sexes and the † genital structures. Sinthusa chenzhibingi spec. nov. is described from NW. Yunnan, W. Sichuan, S. Shaanxi and S. Gansu. The real ‡ of S. rayata riley, 1939 and the † of S. menglaensis (Wang, 1997) are re...

The maternally inherited obligate bacteria Wolbachia is known for infecting the reproductive tissues of a wide range of arthropods and can contribute to phylogenetically discordant patterns between mtDNA and nDNA. In this study, we tested for an association between mito-nuclear discordance in Polytremis and Wolbachia infection. Six of the 17 specie...

A new species, Onryza pesudomaga is described from Zhejiang Province, S. China. The new taxon resembles O. maga which is widely distributed in S. China and Taiwan. Differences and some biological information of the two allied species are given. A key to species of the genus Onryza Watson, 1893 and a distribution map of all the members of this genus...

Eleven polymorphic microsatellite loci were isolated and characterized from a Chinese endemic species, Polytremis fukia Evans. The isolated loci were polymorphic, with 5–10 alleles in 21 individuals. The analyses revealed that they had different multilocus genotypes, with the expected heterozygosity ranging from 0.69 to 0.86 and observed heterozygo...

Wolbachia are endosymbiotic bacteria that infect arthropod and nematode hosts. Only a few studies have been made on Wolbachia in butterflies. In this study, we identified and determined the molecular characteristics of Wolbachia strains in Polytremis fukia (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), from seven locations in China. We also sequenced three portions o...

Ahlbergia maoweiweii sp. n. (Theclinae: Eumaeini) is described from Shaanxi, China. Ahlbergia frivaldszkyi, A. frivaldszkyi tricaudata, A. leei, A. confusa, A. ferrea and A. inopinata are reviewed. A. tricaudata stat. rev. (= A. frivaldszkyi tricaudata) is recognized as a separate species with A. tricaudata confusa stat. n. (= A. confusa) treated a...

The skipper Polytremis theca species complex is widely distributed in the south of the Qinling Mountains in China. A recent study of the Polytremis genus suggested that this species might encompass two differentiated lineages. We tested this hypothesis, by carrying out a phylogenetic study of this agricultural pest based on nationwide sampling and...

Skippers of the tribe Baorini are evidently a monophyletic group in the subfamily Hesperiinae. In this study, a new Baorini member Tsukiyamaia albimacula gen. n. et sp. n. is described from north Myanmar, southwest China and north Vietnam. Despite its peculiar and striking wing-pattern, this new genus has some important characters of Baorini, such...

The sequence of the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Polytremis jigongi (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) has been presented in this article. It is 15,353 bp in length, with an A + T content of 80.9% containing 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs, and a noncoding control region (D-loop). All of the 37 typical animal mitochondrial genes were fou...

Abstract In this study, the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence of Polytremis nascens (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) was determined. The 15,392 bp mitogenome with GenBank accession number KM981865 contained 13 protein genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs, and a non-coding control region (D-loop). All the 37 typical animal mitochondrial genes were found. Th...

The maternally inherited obligate bacteria Wolbachia is known for infecting the reproductive tissues of a wide range of arthropods. In this study, we surveyed Wolbachia infections in Polytremis nascens (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from 14 locations in China by amplifying the 16S rRNA gene with a nested PCR method and revealed the effect of Wolbachia...

The genus Polytremis, restricted to the continental part of the southeastern Palaearctic and northern Oriental regions, is one of the largest and most diverse lineages of the tribe Baorini. Previous studies on the genus were focused mainly on morphological classification and identification of new species. Due to the lack of effective and homologous...

A new species, Polytremis jigongi is described from Zhejiang, China. The new taxon resembles four congeneric species P.nascens (Leech), P. micropunctata (Huang), P. theca (Evans) and P.mencia (Moore), which are also analyzed and compared in the present study, and their geographical distribution in China is mapped. A key to the genus Polytremis of t...