Celastraceae

Fynbos/Thicket Mosaic, as its name implies, is a mixture of fynbos elements (mainly ericoid shrubs and restioids) and large-leaved subtropical shrubs (Cassine and Maytenus, both in the family Celastraceae; Sideroxylon spp., in the family Sapotaceae; Rhus spp. in the family Anacardiaceae).

Lowland fynbos and renosterveld 2008

Yponomeuta lay their eggs and in the larval stage feed on Celastraceae.

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The genus has a supposed ancestral host-plant association with the spindle tree family Celastraceae

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Yponomeuta probably arose as an East Asian clade feeding on Celastraceae, and subsequently expanded its distribution area westward to the western Palaearctic and the Canary Islands, and to North America.

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Y. cagnagellus is supportive of a former association with Rosaceae and therefore its present association with Celastraceae might very well be a backshift

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Y. cagnagellus with Euonymus europaeus (Celastraceae), however, is a reversal.

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The host shifts that can be reconstructed are from the ancestral Celastraceae to Rosaceae in the ancestor of the

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Y. cagnagellus, however, still (or again) feed on Celastraceae.

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Females lay their eggs on twigs of a variety of host plants, mainly from the families Celastraceae and Rosaceae, on which the specialist larvae feed.

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Y. cagnagellus-irrorellus clade, with reversals back to Celastraceae in

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