Abstract
The tribe Plesioclytini was recently erected for a single genus of cerambycine longhorn beetle. The group was diagnosed from a proposed sister lineage, the diverse Clytini; however, a formal phylogenetic analysis was not performed due to limitations in data availability. Here, we present a phylogenetic reconstruction from five loci, that Plesioclytini is not sister to Clytini, but is instead only distantly related. Subsequent morphological investigations provide additional support for this placement.
Highlights
Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802, longhorn beetles, is a large family with 38,368 species to date [1,2,3]
The dataset gathered for a maximum likelihood phylogenetic reconstruction was based on 628 bp of COI, 614 bp of 18S rRNA, 694 bp of 16S rRNA, 561 bp of 28S rRNA, and 429 bp of wingless, for a total of 2926 bp of concatenated nucleotide sequence
Lepturinae is reconstructed as the sister group to Cerambycinae (BS 100)
Summary
Cerambycidae Latreille, 1802, longhorn beetles, is a large family with 38,368 species to date [1,2,3]. Linsley (1961) [4] split Cerambycidae into eight subfamilies: Cerambycinae Latreille, 1825 (12,423 species), Dorcasominae Lacordaire, 1869 (38 species), Lamiinae. Švácha and Danilevsky (1987) recognized eight subfamilies, but instead of Dorcasominae and Spondylidinae, they proposed Apatophyseinae and Aseminae [7]. Napp (1994) [8] and Bouchard et al (2011) [5] proposed adding the subfamily Anoplodermatinae, but Švácha and Lawrence [3] argue against this, and today, the eight subfamilies that Linsley (1961) [4]. The phylogenetic relationships at the family and subfamily levels remain uncertain due to the diversity within each family and limited data availability [9,10]. While the relationships between the subfamilies are unstable, the monophyly of the majority of them is not in question
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