scholarly journals Comparisons in EAG Response to n-Alkyl Compounds between the Fruit- and Pinaceae-Feeding Type of Yellow Peach Moth, Conogethes punctiferalis (GUENEE) : Lepidoptera : Pyralidae

1986 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroshi HONDA ◽  
Yasuhito MARUYAMA ◽  
Yoshiharu MATSUMOTO
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Type ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
Yellow Peach Moth

scholarly journals Morphological, Ecological, and Molecular Divergence of Conogethes pinicolalis from C. punctiferalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Insects ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Na Ra Jeong ◽  
Min Jee Kim ◽  
Sung-Soo Kim ◽  
Sei-Woong Choi ◽  
Iksoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Incomplete Lineage Sorting ◽  
Divergence Time ◽  
Sequence Divergence ◽  
Lineage Sorting ◽  
Mitochondrial Coi ◽  
Feeding Type ◽  
Pine Trees ◽  
Yellow Peach Moth

Conogethes pinicolalis has long been considered as a Pinaceae-feeding type of the yellow peach moth, C. punctiferalis, in Korea. In this study, the divergence of C. pinicolalis from the fruit-feeding moth C. punctiferalis was analyzed in terms of morphology, ecology, and genetics. C. pinicolalis differs from C. punctiferalis in several morphological features. Through field observation, we confirmed that pine trees are the host plants for the first generation of C. pinicolalis larvae, in contrast to fruit-feeding C. punctiferalis larvae. We successfully reared C. pinicolalis larvae to adults by providing them pine needles as a diet. From a genetic perspective, the sequences of mitochondrial COI of these two species substantially diverged by an average of 5.46%; moreover, phylogenetic analysis clearly assigned each species to an independent clade. On the other hand, nuclear EF1α showed a lower sequence divergence (2.10%) than COI. Overall, EF1α-based phylogenetic analysis confirmed each species as an independent clade, but a few haplotypes of EF1α indicated incomplete lineage sorting between these two species. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that C. pinicolalis is an independent species according to general taxonomic criteria; however, analysis of the EF1α sequence revealed a short divergence time.

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