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Joele FR, Dias Filho MM, Jasso-Martínez JM, Garzón-Orduña IJ. Phylogenomics of the geometrid tribe Palyadini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) reveals contrasting patterns of phylogenetic signal in wing colour characters. Cladistics 2024; 40:374-390. [PMID: 38532274 DOI: 10.1111/cla.12574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Revised: 02/04/2024] [Accepted: 02/12/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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Next generation sequencing techniques currently represent a practical and efficient way to infer robust evolutionary hypotheses. Palyadini is a small Neotropical tribe of geometrid moths composed of six genera that feature strikingly colourful wings. Here, we investigated patterns of evolution and amount of phylogenetic signal contained in various colour characters featured in the wings of members of this tribe by (i) inferring a robust phylogenetic hypothesis using ultraconserved elements (UCEs), and afterwards, (ii) mapping the morphological characters onto the molecular topology under a parsimonious ancestral character optimization. Our matrix, obtained with 60% completeness, includes 754 UCE loci and 73 taxa (64 ingroup, nine outgroup). Maximum likelihood and parsimony generated largely identical topologies with strongly supported nodes, except for one node inside the genus Opisthoxia. According to our topology, most wing colour characters are reconstructed as homoplastic, particularly at the tribe level, but five of the seven provide evidence supporting common ancestry at the genus level. Our results emphasize, once again, that no character system is infallible, and that more research is necessary to take our understanding of the evolution of wing colour in moths to a level comparable with the knowledge we have for butterflies.
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- Flávia R Joele
- Laboratorio de Sistemática de Polillas, Departamento de Zoología, Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cto. Zona Deportiva S/N, C.U. Coyocan., CDMX, 04510, Mexico
- Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Edificio D, 1° Piso. Circuito de Posgrados, CU. Coyoacan, CDMX, 04510, Mexico
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Rod. Washington Luís, s/n - Monjolinho., Sao Carlos, 13565-905, Brazil
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- Departamento de Zoología, Colección Nacional de Insectos Instituto de Biología, UNAM, Cto. Zona Deportiva S/N, C.U. Coyocan., CDMX, 04510, Mexico
- Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, 20560, USA
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- Laboratorio de Sistemática de Polillas, Departamento de Zoología, Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Cto. Zona Deportiva S/N, C.U. Coyocan., CDMX, 04510, Mexico
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Murillo-Ramos L, Friedrich E, Williams S, Wahlberg N, Brehm G, Sihvonen P. A morphological appraisal of the new subfamily Epidesmiinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with an overview of all geometrid subfamilies. Zool J Linn Soc 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Our study revises Epidesmiinae, the first new Geometridae subfamily that has been described in 127 years. We studied the morphological characters of representatives from all genera currently classified into Epidesmiinae, and compared those with all other geometrid subfamilies. Epidesmiinae were found to have an Australasian distribution, with one species occurring in the Indo-Malayan realm. They compose a lineage diagnosable by a combination of the following morphological characters: male antennae unipectinate; labial palps elongated (particularly the second segment), vom Raths’s organ with an elliptical invagination; forewing with two areoles; hindwing with one anal vein; gnathos arms fused, granulate or dentate apically; female genitalia with two signa, one stellate, another an elongated and spinose plate. We also present a summary of diagnostic characters of all geometrid subfamilies, which confirm the lack of single unique morphological characters. The limited information on the biology and ecology of Epidesmiinae species are summarized, indicating that some species fly during the day, most adult records are from the Southern Hemisphere summer months and larvae are found on Myrtaceae. We transfer Arcina Walker, 1863 from Oenochrominae s.l. to Epidesmiinae. Epidesmiinae includes 102 species that are now classified into nine genera: Abraxaphantes, Adeixis, Arcina, Dichromodes, Ecphyas, Epidesmia, Phrataria, Phrixocomes and Systatica.
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- Leidys Murillo-Ramos
- Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Sucre, Colombia
- Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden
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- Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung mit Phyletischem Museum, Jena, Germany
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- Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki, Finland
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