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Analysis of the Holarctic Dictyoptera aurora Complex (Coleoptera, Lycidae) Reveals Hidden Diversity and Geographic Structure in Müllerian Mimicry Ring

Insects 2022, 13(9), 817; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13090817
by Michal Motyka, Dominik Kusy, Renata Bilkova and Ladislav Bocak *
Reviewer 1:
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Insects 2022, 13(9), 817; https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13090817
Submission received: 15 August 2022 / Revised: 31 August 2022 / Accepted: 1 September 2022 / Published: 7 September 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Insect Systematics, Phylogeny and Evolution)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is very nice paper. Sampling for molecular analysis is a bit low, but this is a usual problem of these studies. Fig 3 could be rearranged in a way that the top row shows elements of one species and the bottom row shows elements of another species. 

Author Response

Many thanks for your review. The sampling is really a problem, and despite we tried to get further samples we had to publish with available material. D. aurora and D. coccinata are not very common, and their range covers the Holarctic region. 

We considered the proposal that Fig. 3 can be rearranged, but we prefer to have rows of the genitalia of both species to enable easy comparison in the same observation angle. We expanded the legend to help the reader. 

Reviewer 2 Report

1. Krivolutzkaya (2013) (line 78): not given in References (maybe 1973?)

2. Cantharis and Platycis are feminine - Cantharis sanguineus and Platycis minutus should be given as C. sanguinea and Platycis minuta.

3. B. taygetanus (line 374) should be given in italics

4. Hiekeolycus (line 413) is not yet resurrected and considered a synonym  of Helcophorus - maybe it's better to use both names?

 

Author Response

Many thanks for the review. We have accepted all suggestions and modified the manuscript accordingly.

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