First results of the German Barcode of Life (GBOL) - Myriapoda project: Cryptic lineages in German Stenotaenialinearis (Koch, 1835) (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha).

Thomas Wesener,Peter Decker,Karin Voigtländer,Norman Lindner,Jörg Spelda,Jan Philip Oeyen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.510.8852

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Journal: ZooKeys	Publication Date: Jun 30, 2015
Citations: 14	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz

Abstract

As part of the German Barcode of Life (GBOL) Myriapoda program, which aims to sequence the COI barcoding fragment for 2000 specimens of Germany’s 200 myriapod species in the near future, 44 sequences of the centipede order Geophilomorpha are analyzed. The analyses are limited to the genera Geophilus Leach, 1814 and Stenotaenia Koch, 1847 and include a total of six species. A special focus is Stenotaenia, of which 19 specimens from southern, western and eastern Germany could be successfully sequenced. The Stenotaenia data shows the presence of three to four vastly different (13.7–16.7% p-distance) lineages of the genus in Germany. At least two of the three lineages show a wide distribution across Germany, only the lineage including topotypes of Stenotaenia linearis shows a more restricted distribution in southern Germany. In a maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis the Italian species Stenotaenia ‘sorrentina’ (Attems, 1903) groups with the different German Stenotaenia linearis clades. The strongly different Stenotaenia linearis lineages within Germany, independent of geography, are a strong hint for the presence of additional, cryptic Stenotaenia species in Germany.

Highlights

The German Barcode of Life – Myriapoda project aims to sequence part of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene known as the barcode fragment for all approximately 200 Myriapoda species in Germany (Voigtländer et al 2011)
We show the preliminary results of one of the largest barcoding datasets compiled for centipedes of the order Geophilomorpha, with a special focus on the recently revised Stenotaenia Koch, 1847 (Bonato and Minelli 2008)
The basalmost node of the tree supports three monophyletic groups: G. flavus, a species formerly separated in a different genus, Necrophloeophagus Newport, 1842, all other Geophilus, and Stenotaenia

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Introduction

The German Barcode of Life – Myriapoda project aims to sequence part of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene known as the barcode fragment for all approximately 200 Myriapoda species in Germany (Voigtländer et al 2011). While some studies incorporate COI data, this is mostly done on the species-level Oeyen et al 2014), and occasionally in genus-level studies In Germany, a study of Bavarian myriapods (Spelda et al 2011) pioneered research in this field. We show the preliminary results of one of the largest barcoding datasets compiled for centipedes of the order Geophilomorpha, with a special focus on the recently revised Stenotaenia Koch, 1847 (Bonato and Minelli 2008). Stenotaenia linearis (Koch, 1835) is the type species of the genus, and the only species recorded from Germany (Voigtländer et al 2011). After the resurrection of the genus in 2008, some redescriptions were undertaken (Dányi 2010), and the species S. linearis was recorded from Belgium for the first time (Lock 2009)

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