Phylogenetic hypothesis for Nymphalidae based on Wahlberg et al. (2009)
The figure below is the full tree (minus outgroups) from Wahlberg et al. (2009). The coloured clades represent the subfamilies of Nymphalidae. The age in millions of years of each clade is given at the node. The original BEAST treefile can be downloaded here.
- Wahlberg, N., Leneveu, J., Kodandaramaiah, U., Peña, C., Nylin, S., Freitas, A. V. L. & Brower, A. V. Z. 2009: Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences 276: 4295-4302. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1303