Phylogenetic Relationships, Evolution, and Systematic Revision of the Septate Gregarines (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinorida: Septatorina)

2009 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Clopton
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Septate Gregarines

A systematic revision of Japanese Trichadenotecnum Enderlein (Psocodea:'Psocoptera':Psocidae:Ptyctini), with redefinition and subdivision of the genus

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazunori Yoshizawa
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Monophyletic Group ◽  
Japanese Species ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
Species Groups ◽  
Medium Group

The genus Trichadenotecnum Enderlein, 1909 is redefined as a monophyletic group. The following 22 Japanese species are treated and classified into five species-groups except one species not placed in a group: sexpunctatum-group – T. album, sp. nov., T. incognitum Roesler, 1939; medium-group – T. takahashii, sp. nov., T. mixtum, sp. nov., T. magnomixtum, sp. nov., T. amamiense, sp. nov., T. okinawense, sp. nov., T. yonaguniense, sp. nov., T. kumejimense, sp. nov., T. latebrachium, sp. nov., T. pseudomedium, sp. nov., T. yaeyamense, sp. nov.; alexanderae-group – T. alexanderae Sommerman, 1948, T. castum Betz, 1983, T. sexpunctellum (Enderlein, 1907); majus-group – T. yamatomajus, sp. nov., T. nothoapertum, sp. nov.; spiniserrulum-group – T. falx, sp. nov., T. furcalingum, sp. nov., T. pardidum Thornton, 1961, T. circularoides Badonnel, 1955; incertae sedis – T. fuscipennis, sp. nov. The monophyly and phylogenetic relationships of these species-groups are discussed. A key to Japanese species of Trichadenotecnum is given.

A systematic revision of the New Zealand longicorn beetle genus Drototelus Broun (Coleoptera : Cerambycidae : Cerambycinae)

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiao Wang ◽  
Wen Lu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Dead Wood ◽  
Sister Species ◽  
Monotypic Genus ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Species Relationship ◽  
Longicorn Beetle ◽  
One New Species

The New Zealand endemic longicorn beetle genus Drototelus Broun is revised. The scope of the genus is redefined. The monotypic genus Neocalliprason Brookes is synonymised with Drototelus. Two known species, D. politus Broun and D. elegans (Brookes), are redescribed and one new species, D. rarus, is described. These changes have brought the number of Drototelus species to three. Distribution and biology are noted for each species. Adults are diurnally active flower-visitors, and larvae are dead-wood feeders. Phylogenetic relationships of these species are cladistically analysed, confirming the monophyly of the revised genus and determining the sister-species relationship between D. politus and D. rarus.

Systematic revision and phylogenetic reassessment of the centipede genera Rhysida Wood, 1862 and Alluropus Silvestri, 1912 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in Southeast Asia, with further discussion of the subfamily Otostigminae

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Warut Siriwut ◽  
Gregory D. Edgecombe ◽  
Chirasak Sutcharit ◽  
Piyoros Tongkerd ◽  
Somsak Panha
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetics ◽  
Molecular Similarity ◽  
Taxonomic Revision ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Allopatric Populations ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
Putative Species ◽  
Species Being ◽  
Significant Support

Phylogenetic relationships of two morphologically similar scolopendrid genera, Rhysida Wood, 1862, and Alluropus Silvestri, 1912, were investigated based on broad-scale taxonomic sampling from SE Asia, India and Australia. Morphological revision and molecular phylogenetics using three loci validate seven Rhysida species in SE Asia and Australia: R. lithobioides (Newport, 1845), R. longipes (Newport, 1845), R. immarginata (Porat, 1876), R. nuda (Newport, 1845), R. carinulata (Haase, 1887), R. singaporiensis Verhoeff, 1937 and R. polyacantha Koch, 1985. The nominal SE Asian species R. leviventer Attems, 1953 and R. marginata Attems, 1953 are placed in junior subjective synonymy with R. lithobioides and Alluropus calcaratus (Pocock, 1891), respectively. The monotypic genus Alluropus is redescribed, molecular phylogeny recovering it nesting together with Indo-Australian Rhysida. Taxonomic revision reassigned R. calcarata Pocock, 1891 to Alluropus based on its morphological and molecular similarity to the type, A. demangei Silvestri, 1912, the differences between putative species being sexual variation. Two morphologically distinct allopatric populations of A. calcaratus, comb. nov. (= A. demangei, syn. nov.) were found in the Indochina subregion. Phylogenetic relationships in Otostigminae remain unsettled because clades within several genera lack significant support, although Rhysida consistently falls into two clades that are not each other’s closest relative.

Phylogenetic Relationships and Systematic Revision of Central Texas Hemidactyliine Plethodontid Salamanders

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul T. Chippindale ◽  
Andrew H. Price ◽  
John J. Wiens ◽  
David M. Hillis
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Plethodontid Salamanders ◽  
Central Texas

Systematic revision of Anopinella Powell (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) and phylogenetic analysis of the Apolychrosis group of genera

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 200 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN W. BROWN ◽  
DAVID ADAMSKI
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
New Combination ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Southern Mexico

Thirty-five species are recognized in the Neotropical genus Anopinella Powell, including 5 previously described, A. isodelta (Meyrick), A. triquetra (Walsingham), A. ophiodes (Walsingham), A. aurea (Razowski & Becker), new combination, and A. perblanda (Razowski & Becker), new combination, and 30 described as new: A. albolinea (TL: Costa Rica), A. araguana (TL: Venezuela), A. arenalana (TL: Costa Rica), A. boliviana (TL: Bolivia), A. brasiliana (TL: Brazil), A. cafrosana (TL: Costa Rica), A. cartagoa (TL: Costa Rica), A. carabayana (TL: Peru), A. choko (TL: Colombia), A. cuzco (TL: Peru), A. fana (TL: Venezuela), A. holandia (TL: Guatemala), A. larana (TL: Venezuela), A. macrosema (TL: Costa Rica), A. mariana (TL: Guatemala), A. panamana (TL: Panama), A. parambana (TL: Ecuador), A. peruvensis (TL: Peru), A. phillipsae (TL: Costa Rica), A. porrasa (TL: Costa Rica), A. powelli (TL: Costa Rica), A. rastafariana (TL: Jamaica), A. razowskii (TL: Brazil), A. rica (TL: Costa Rica), A. rigidana (TL: Costa Rica), A. styraxivora (TL: Costa Rica), A. sympatrica (TL: Guatemala), A. tinalandana (TL: Ecuador), A. transecta (TL: Costa Rica), and A. tucki (TL: Peru). The genus occurs from Jamaica and southern Mexico to southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia. One species has been reared from the fruit of Styrax (Styracaceae), one from a fungus gall on Inga longispina (Fabaceae), and one from the stem of Vernonia (Asteraceae). We re-examine phylogenetic relationships among Anopinella and its putative related genera, Seticosta Razowski, Punctapinella Brown, Strophotina Brown, and Apolychrosis Amsel. We synonymize Ecuadorica Razowski & Becker, 2000, with Anopinella.

Revision and systematic position of the intertidal genus Thinusa Casey (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)

1997 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kee-Jeong Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Distributional Pattern ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Systematic Revision

AbstractA systematic revision of the genus Thinusa is presented. Thinusa Casey is redescribed. Thinusa fletcheri Casey and T. maritima (Casey) are redescribed. Lectotype and paralectotypes are designated for T. divergens, T. nigra, T. robustula, T. fletcheri, T. obscura and T. maritima from Casey's syntype series deposited in the NMNH. A key is provided for separation of the known species of Thinusa and illustrations of diagnostic features are presented. Based on maxilla with membranous galea, labium with bifid ligula, distributional pattern of pores on mandibles and lacinia, and anterior margin of abdominal tergites III-VI deeply and broadly V-shaped, and athetine bridge, Thinusa is hypothesized to be related to the tribe Athetini rather than the tribe Phytosini. Phylogenetic relationships of the Thinusa are discussed.

scholarly journals An integrative systematic revision and biogeography ofRhynchocalamussnakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel

PeerJ ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. e2769 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Tamar ◽  
Jiří Šmíd ◽  
Bayram Göçmen ◽  
Shai Meiri ◽  
Salvador Carranza
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Phylogenetic Trees ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Phylogenetic Position ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Systematic Revision ◽  
Sea Level Fluctuations ◽  
A New Species

BackgroundThe colubrid snakes of the genusRhynchocalamusare seldom studied and knowledge of their ecology and life history is scarce. Three species ofRhynchocalamusare currently recognized,R. satunini(from Turkey eastwards to Iran),R. arabicus(Yemen and Oman), andR. melanocephalus(from the Sinai Peninsula northwards to Turkey). All are slender, secretive, mainly nocturnal and rare fossorial snakes. This comprehensive study is the first to sample all knownRhynchocalamusspecies in order to review the intra-generic phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of the genus.MethodsWe revised the systematics ofRhynchocalamususing an integrative approach and evaluated its phylogeography. The phylogenetic position within the Colubridae and the phylogenetic relationships within the genus were inferred using 29 individuals belonging to the three known species, with additional sampling of two other closely-related genera,MuhtarophisandLytorhynchus. We analysed three mitochondrial (12S,16S, cytb) and one nuclear (c-mos) gene fragments. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference methods; the latter method also used to provide the first time-calibrated molecular phylogeny of the genus. We generated a nuclear network and carried out a topology test and species delimitation analysis. Morphological comparisons were used to differentiate among species and to describe a new species from Israel. The studied material was comprised of 108 alcohol-preserved specimens, 15 photographs, and data from the literature for the examination of 17 mensural, 14 meristic, and two categorical characters.ResultsThe molecular results supportRhynchocalamusas monophyletic, and as having split from its sister genusLytorhynchusduring the Late Oligocene. The three recognized species ofRhynchocalamuscomprise four independently evolving groups. The molecular results reveal that the genus began to diverge during the Middle Miocene. We revealed that the best-studied species,R. melanocephalus,is paraphyletic. A population, formally ascribed to this species, from the Negev Mountain area in southern Israel is phylogenetically closer toR. arabicusfrom Oman than to the northern populations of the species from Israel, Syria and Turkey. Herein we describe this population as a new species:Rhynchocalamus dayanaesp. nov.DiscussionWe identify four species withinRhynchocalamus:R. satunini, R. arabicus, R. melanocephalus, andR. dayanaesp. nov., the latter, to the best of our knowledge, is endemic to southern Israel. The onset ofRhynchocalamusdiversification is very old and estimated to have occurred during the Middle Miocene, possibly originating in the Levant region. Radiation probably resulted from vicariance and dispersal events caused by continuous geological instability, sea-level fluctuations and climatic changes within the Levant region.

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