Cladistic analysis of Spartocerini Amyot & Serville 1843 (Hemiptera, Coreidae, Coreinae)
Wanessa da Silva Costa
Aline Barcellos
Harry Brailovsky
10.6084/m9.figshare.12311258.v1
https://brill.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Cladistic_analysis_of_Spartocerini_Amyot_Serville_1843_Hemiptera_Coreidae_Coreinae_/12311258
<p>Among the 32 tribes of
Coreinae currently recognized, Spartocerini comprises 66 extant species
distributed in six genera: <i>Euagona </i>Dallas,
<i>Eubule </i>Stål, <i>Menenotus </i>Laporte, <i>Molchina</i>
Amyot & Serville, <i>Sephina </i>Amyot
& Serville and <i>Spartocera</i>
Laporte, distributed exclusively in the Western Hemisphere. We performed
cladistic analyses using equal (EW) and also implied weighting (IW) based on 56
terminals (23 belonging to the ingroup) and 115 morphological characters,
including male and female genitalia. Spartocerini was polyphyletic both under
EW and IW because <i>Molchina</i> was nested
in Mictini. We remove <i>Molchina </i>from
Spartocerini and consider the genus as <i>incertae
sedis</i>. <i>Spartocera</i>, <i>Eubule, </i>and <i>Sephina</i> were not recovered as monophyletic. <i>Sephina pubera </i>(Erichson) is considered as <i>incertae sedis</i> within Spartocerini, <i>Eubule ampliata</i> Valdés is transferred to <i>Spartocera</i> as a new combination, and <i>Mamurius </i>is included in Anisoscelini.</p>
2020-06-09 07:43:25
classification
incertae sedis
morphology
phylogeny
systematics
taxonomy
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