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Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2012
DOI: 10.1603/ME12028
Abstract: Horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) are ecologically important pollinators and vectors of many disease-causing organisms, as adult females are known to mechanically transfer multiple disease agents during feeding affecting humans, livestock, and many native mammals. Scaptia (Pseudoscione) Lutz in Lutz, Araujo, & Fonseca 1918 has the widest distribution of all genera in the tribe Scionini, occurring in Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, and South America. Seven new species of Australian S. (Pseudoscione) are described and included in an updated key to the subgenus. The new species are: S. (Pseudoscione) baylessi sp. nov. Lessard, S. (Pseudoscione) casseli sp. nov. Lessard, S. (Pseudoscione) mackerrasi sp. nov. Lessard, S. (Pseudoscione) moritae sp. nov. Lessard, S. (Pseudoscione) turcatelae sp. nov. Lessard, S. (Pseudoscione) turneri sp. nov. Lessard, and S. (Pseudoscione) wiegmanni sp. nov. Lessard. In addition, S. (Pseudoscione) occidentalis Mackerras, 1960, previously described as a subspecies, has been raised to species level. One new species significantly extends the known distribution of Scaptia into central Australia, >1,200 km NW from the nearest recorded species within the subgenus.
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2012
Abstract: A new species of Fergusonina (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) fly is described from terminal leaf bud galls (TLBGs) from the Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieb. ex Spreng. (snow gum) species complex from Australia. Fergusonina tasmaniensis Nelson sp.n. is the first species from the genus Fergusonina to be described from Tasmania and the fourth from this host complex. Fergusonina tasmaniensis sp.n. can be distinguished from the other snow gum Fergusonina species by differences in adult size, markings on the mesonotum and the male genitalia, and from all other described Fergusonina by host specificity and differences in adult colouration, setation, genitalia and the morphology of the larval dorsal shield. In a molecular phylogeny of the snow gum-inhabiting Fergusonina species, F. tasmaniensis sp.n. was resolved as monophyletic, and sister (mean distance = 3.82%) to a clade comprising F. daviesae Nelson and Yeates and F. omlandi Nelson and Yeates (mean interspecific distance = 2.48%).
Publisher: Brill
Date: 2012
Abstract: A new genus of Australian and New Zealand horse fly, Anzomyia Lessard, gen.n., is described, with its type species Anzomyia anomala (Mackerras) originally placed in the Scaptia (Walker, 1850) subgenus Pseudoscione (Lutz, 1918). The new genus Anzomyia is diagnosed and illustrated, along with the description of three new species. A taxonomic key is also provided to include all known species. The three new species are Anzomyia chrysomallis Lessard, sp.n. and Anzomyia pegasus Lessard, sp.n. from Australia, and Anzomyia herculensis Lessard, sp.n. from New Zealand.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2003
DOI: 10.1071/IS03020
Abstract: Almost half of the 4822 described beeflies in the world belong to the subfamily Anthracinae, with most of the ersity found in three cosmopolitan tribes: Villini, Anthracini, and Exoprosopini. The Australian Exoprosopini previously contained three genera, Ligyra Newman, Pseudopenthes Roberts and Exoprosopa Macquart. Pseudopenthes is an Australian endemic, with two species including Ps. hesperis, sp. nov. from Western Australia. Two new species of the exoprosopine Atrichochira Hesse, Atr. commoni, sp. nov. and Atr. paramonovi, sp.�nov., are also described from Australia, extending the generic distribution from Africa. Cladistic analysis clarified the phylogenetic relationships between the recognised groups of the Exoprosopini and determined generic limits on a world scale. Inclusion of 18 Australian exoprosopines placed the Australian species in the context of the world fauna. The Exoprosopini contains six large groups. The basal group I contains species previously included in Exoprosopa to which the name Defilippia Lioy is applied. Group II contains Heteralonia Rondani, Atrichochira, Micomitra Bowden, Pseudopenthes, and Diatropomma Bowden. Colossoptera Hull is newly synonymised with Heteralonia. Group III is a paraphyletic assemblage of Pterobates Bezzi and Exoprosopa including the Australian Ex. sylvana (Fabricius). Ligyra is paraphyletic, forming two well-separated clades. The African clade is described as Euligyra Lambkin, gen. nov., which, together with Litorhina Bezzi and Hyperalonia Rondani, form group IV. The Australian group V is true Ligyra. The remaining monophyletic lineage of exoprosopines, group VI, the Balaana-group of genera, shows evidence of an evolutionary radiation of beeflies in semi-arid Australia. Phylogenetic analysis of all 42 species of the Balaana-group of genera formed a basis for delimiting genera. Seven new genera are described by Lambkin & Yeates: Balaana, Kapua, Larrpana, Munjua, Muwarna, Palirika and Wurda. Four non-Australian species belong to Balaana. Thirty two new Australian species are described: Bal. abscondita, Bal.�bicuspis, Bal. centrosa, Bal. gigantea, Bal. kingcascadensis, K. corusca, K. irwini, K. westralica, Lar. collessi, Lar. zwicki, Mun. erugata, Mun. lepidokingi, Mun. paralutea, Mun. trigona, Muw. vitreilinearis, Pa. anaxios, Pa. basilikos, Pa. blackdownensis, Pa. bouchardi, Pa. cyanea, Pa. danielsi, Pa. decora, Pa. viridula, Pa. whyalla, W. emu, W. impatientis, W. montebelloensis, W. norrisi, W. patrellia, W. skevingtoni, W. windorah, and W. wyperfeldensis. The following new combinations are proposed: from Colossoptera: Heteralonia latipennis (Brunetti) from Exoprosopa: Bal. grandis (Pallas), Bal. efflatounbeyi (Paramonov), Bal. latelimbata (Bigot), Bal. obliquebifasciata (Macquart), Bal.�tamerlan (Portschinsky), Bal. onusta (Walker), Def. busiris (Jaennicke), Def. efflatouni (Bezzi), Def. eritreae (Greathead), Def. gentilis (Bezzi), Def. luteicosta (Bezzi), Def. minos (Meigen), Def. nigrifimbriata (Hesse), Def.�rubescens (Bezzi), K. adelaidica (Macquart), Lar. dimidiatipennis (Bowden), Muw. stellifera (Walker), and Pa.�marginicollis (Gray) from Ligyra: Eu. enderleini (Paramonov), Eu. mars (Bezzi), Eu. monacha (Klug), Eu. paris (Bezzi), Eu. sisyphus (Fabricius), and Eu. venus (Karsch).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-01-2012
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2011.644042
Abstract: Approximately 2500 fly species comprise the Sarcophagidae family worldwide. The complete mitochondrial genome of the carrion-breeding, forensically important Sarcophaga impatiens Walker (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from Australia was sequenced. The 15,169 bp circular genome contains the 37 genes found in a typical Metazoan genome: 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes and 22 transfer RNA genes. It also contains one non-coding A þ T-rich region. The arrangement of the genes was the same as that found in the ancestral insect. All the protein initiation codons are ATN, except for cox1 that begins with TCG (encoding S). The 22 tRNA anticodons of S. impatiens are consistent with those observed in Drosophila yakuba, and all form the typical cloverleaf structure, except for tRNA-Ser((AGN)) that lacks the DHU arm. The mitochondrial genome of Sarcophaga presented will be valuable for resolving phylogenetic relationships within the family Sarcophagidae and the order Diptera, and could be used to identify favourable genetic markers for species identifications for forensic purposes.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-09-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-05-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-08-1999
Publisher: Australian Museum
Date: 30-05-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1995
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 1999
DOI: 10.1071/IT97029
Abstract: Nanexila Winterton & Irwin, gen. nov. is describedand figured from Australia. This genus of typically small, slender flies is ided into three species-groups following cladistic analysis. The previouslyunplaced N. manni (Hardy) comb. nov. is redescribed inthe Nanexilamanni species-group, along with four newspecies: N. armeniacum,N. carminata, N. furcata andN. nana. Nanexila ruficornis (Macquart) comb. nov. isredescribed in the Nanexila palassa species-group, alongwith ten new species: N. argentiquadris,N. cylomelasma, N. danielsi,N. ligula, N. lignyos,N. livea, N. palassa,N. spilotis, N. variabilis, andN. vittata. Four new species are described in theNanexila atricostalis species-group:N. atricostalis, N. aureilineata,N. intermedia, and N. paradoxa.The twenty Nanexila species and five outgroup specieswere compared across 167 states in 71 characters. A cladistic analysis wasconducted and the phylogenetic relationships of Nanexiladiscussed. Nanexila is endemic to Australia, with alargely southern distribution. Only N. argentiquadrisand N. cylomelasma are known from northern Australia.Adult Nanexila have been collected between August andApril, with the peak period of activity for most species during October andNovember. The duration of adult activity is related to latitude, with northernspecies active for longer periods than southern species.
Publisher: Research Square Platform LLC
Date: 10-02-2023
DOI: 10.21203/RS.3.RS-2515328/V1
Abstract: Mosquitoes have profoundly affected human history and continue to threaten human health through the transmission of a erse array of viruses and pathogens. Because mosquitoes are also highly erse and globally widespread, their phylogeny has remained either little known or difficult to discern. Here, we used phylogenomic analysis of 709 orthologous nuclear gene sequences from 256 mosquito species to produce a strongly supported phylogeny that resolves the position of the major disease vector species and the major mosquito lineages. Our tree supports an origin of mosquitoes in the early Triassic (~217 mya) with species ersification and host-use patterns within major lineages coinciding in earth history both with major geologic events and with the ersification of vertebrate classes.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-11-2020
DOI: 10.1111/CLA.12436
Abstract: Bombyliidae is a very species-rich and widespread family of parasitoid flies with more than 250 genera classified into 17 extant subfamilies. However, little is known about their evolutionary history or how their present-day ersity was shaped. Transcriptomes of 15 species and anchored hybrid enrichment (AHE) sequence captures of 86 species, representing 94 bee fly species and 14 subfamilies, were used to reconstruct the phylogeny of Bombyliidae. We integrated data from transcriptomes across each of the main lineages in our AHE tree to build a data set with more genes (550 loci versus 216 loci) and higher support levels. Our overall results show strong congruence with the current classification of the family, with 11 out of 14 included subfamilies recovered as monophyletic. Heterotropinae and Mythicomyiinae are successive sister groups to the remainder of the family. We examined the evolution of key morphological characters through our phylogenetic hypotheses and show that neither the "sand chamber subfamilies" nor the "Tomophthalmae" are monophyletic in our phylogenomic analyses. Based on our results, we reinstate two tribes at the subfamily level (Phthiriinae stat. rev. and Ecliminae stat. rev.) and we include the genus Sericosoma Macquart (previously incertae sedis) in the subfamily Oniromyiinae, bringing the total number of bee fly subfamilies to 19. Our dating analyses indicate a Jurassic origin of the family (165-194 Ma), with the sand chamber evolving early in bee fly evolution, in the late Jurassic or mid-Cretaceous (100-165 Ma). We hypothesize that the angiosperm radiation and the hothouse climate established during the late Cretaceous accelerated the ersification of bee flies, by providing an expanded range of resources for the parasitoid larvae and nectarivorous adults.
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMPEV.2010.04.017
Abstract: Asiloidea are a group of 9 lower brachyceran fly families, considered to be the closest relative to the large Metazoan radiation Eremoneura (Cyclorrhapha+Empidoidea). The evidence for asiloid monophyly is limited, and few characters define the relationships between the families of Asiloidea and Eremoneura. Additionally, enigmatic genera, Hilarimorpha and Apystomyia, retain morphological characters of both asiloids and higher flies. We use the nuclear protein-coding gene CAD and 28S rDNA to test the monophyly of Asiloidea and to resolve its relationship to Eremoneura. We explore the effects of taxon s ling on support values and topological stability, the resolving power of additional genes, and hypothesis testing using four-cluster likelihood mapping. We find that: (1) the 'asiloid' genus Apystomyia is sister to Cyclorrhapha, (2) the remaining asiloids are monophyletic at the exclusion of the family Bombyliidae, and (3) our best estimate of relationships places the asiloid flies excluding Bombyliidae as the sister-group to Eremoneura, though high support is lacking.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-07-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12465
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1071/IS05056
Abstract: The replacement name Kapu is provided for the Australian beefly genus Kapua Lambkin & Yeates (Bombyliidae : Anthracinae : Exoprosopini). Kapua Lambkin & Yeates is a junior homonym of the molluscan fossil Kapua Marwick (Gastropoda : Sorbeoconcha : Janthinoidea : Epitoniidae).
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2011
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2011.632896
Abstract: The monogeneric family Fergusoninidae consists of gall-forming flies that, together with Fergusobia (Tylenchida: Neotylenchidae) nematodes, form the only known mutualistic association between insects and nematodes. In this study, the entire 16,000 bp mitochondrial genome of Fergusonina taylori Nelson and Yeates was sequenced. The circular genome contains one encoding region including 27 genes and one non-coding A+T-rich region. The arrangement of the protein-coding, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and transfer RNA (tRNA) genes was the same as that found in the ancestral insect. Nucleotide composition is highly A+T biased. All of the protein initiation codons are ATN, except for nad1 which begins with TTT. All 22 tRNA anticodons of F. taylori match those observed in Drosophila yakuba, and all form the typical cloverleaf structure except for tRNA-Ser((AGN)) which lacks a dihydrouridine (DHU) arm. Secondary structural features of the rRNA genes of Fergusonina are similar to those proposed for other insects, with minor modifications. The mitochondrial genome of Fergusonina presented here may prove valuable for resolving the sister group to the Fergusoninidae, and expands the available mtDNA data sources for acalyptrates overall.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-12-2019
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12434
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2000
Publisher: The Royal Society
Date: 22-05-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-03-2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-03-2012
DOI: 10.4039/TCE.2012.22
Abstract: Our knowledge of the phylogenetic relationships of Diptera advanced through the 20th century at an unprecedented rate the two crowning achievements of the century were Hennig's magnum opus – the Handbuch der Zoologie treatment of the order and Volume 3 of the Manual of Nearctic Diptera series, edited by McAlpine and Wood. The Manual is outstanding because of its scope and rigorous, consistent approach, treating the relationships of the entire order at family level using Hennigian argumentation. Synapomorphic characters from all life stages were identified using outgroup comparison and monophyletic taxa were established using synapomorphies mapped onto nodes. The Manual chapters energized a generation of students to publish rigorous, quantitative cladistic phylogenetic treatments of many dipteran groups. The chapters also acted as an authoritative scaffold for the development of dipteran molecular systematics in the 1990s. No other mega erse insect order has had such an influential phylogenetic springboard into the 21st century.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2021
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12519
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1999
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 20-11-2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.19.390666
Abstract: Insect orders have been defined and stable for decades, with few notable exceptions ( e.g ., Blattodea and Psocoptera). One of the few remaining questions of order-level monophyly is that of Mecoptera in respect to the phylogenetic placement of Siphonaptera (fleas). We used a large set of transcriptomic nucleotide sequence data representing 56 species and more than 3,000 single-copy genes to resolve the evolutionary history of Antliophora, including fleas (Siphonaptera), scorpionflies and relatives (Mecoptera), and true flies (Diptera). We find that fleas and mecopterans together are the sister group of flies. However, our data and/or analyses are unable to distinguish whether fleas are sister to a monophyletic Mecoptera, or whether they arose from within extant mecopteran families, rendering Mecoptera paraphyletic. We did not detect parameter bias in our dataset after applying a broad range of detection methods. Counter to a previous hypothesis that placed fleas within Mecoptera as the sister group to wingless boreids (snow fleas), we found a potential sister group relationship between fleas and the enigmatic family Nannochoristidae. Although we lack conclusive evidence, it seems possible that fleas represent the most-species rich group of modern mecopterans and that their parasitic lifestyle and morphological adaptations have simply made them unrecognizable in respect to their order-level classification.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.GENE.2012.09.103
Abstract: Members of the Calliphoridae (blowflies) are significant for medical and veterinary management, due to the ability of some species to consume living flesh as larvae, and for forensic investigations due to the ability of others to develop in corpses. Due to the difficulty of accurately identifying larval blowflies to species there is a need for DNA-based diagnostics for this family, however the widely used DNA-barcoding marker, cox1, has been shown to fail for several groups within this family. Additionally, many phylogenetic relationships within the Calliphoridae are still unresolved, particularly deeper level relationships. Sequencing whole mt genomes has been demonstrated both as an effective method for identifying the most informative diagnostic markers and for resolving phylogenetic relationships. Twenty-seven complete, or nearly so, mt genomes were sequenced representing 13 species, seven genera and four calliphorid subfamilies and a member of the related family Tachinidae. PCR and sequencing primers developed for sequencing one calliphorid species could be reused to sequence related species within the same superfamily with success rates ranging from 61% to 100%, demonstrating the speed and efficiency with which an mt genome dataset can be assembled. Comparison of molecular ergences for each of the 13 protein-coding genes and 2 ribosomal RNA genes, at a range of taxonomic scales identified novel targets for developing as diagnostic markers which were 117-200% more variable than the markers which have been used previously in calliphorids. Phylogenetic analysis of whole mt genome sequences resulted in much stronger support for family and subfamily-level relationships. The Calliphoridae are polyphyletic, with the Polleninae more closely related to the Tachinidae, and the Sarcophagidae are the sister group of the remaining calliphorids. Within the Calliphoridae, there was strong support for the monophyly of the Chrysomyinae and Luciliinae and for the sister-grouping of Luciliinae with Calliphorinae. Relationships within Chrysomya were not well resolved. Whole mt genome data, supported the previously demonstrated paraphyly of Lucilia cuprina with respect to L. sericata and allowed us to conclude that it is due to hybrid introgression prior to the last common ancestor of modern sericata populations, rather than due to recent hybridisation, nuclear pseudogenes or incomplete lineage sorting.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-02-2006
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 14-03-2011
Abstract: Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles, wasps, and moths) that account for the majority of animal life on Earth. Diptera includes species known for their ubiquity ( Musca domestica house fly), their role as pests ( Anopheles gambiae malaria mosquito), and their value as model organisms across the biological sciences ( Drosophila melanogaster ). A resolved phylogeny for flies provides a framework for genomic, developmental, and evolutionary studies by facilitating comparisons across model organisms, yet recent research has suggested that fly relationships have been obscured by multiple episodes of rapid ersification. We provide a phylogenomic estimate of fly relationships based on molecules and morphology from 149 of 157 families, including 30 kb from 14 nuclear loci and complete mitochondrial genomes combined with 371 morphological characters. Multiple analyses show support for traditional groups (Brachycera, Cyclorrhapha, and Schizophora) and corroborate contentious findings, such as the anomalous Deuterophlebiidae as the sister group to all remaining Diptera. Our findings reveal that the closest relatives of the Drosophilidae are highly modified parasites (including the wingless Braulidae) of bees and other insects. Furthermore, we use micro-RNAs to resolve a node with implications for the evolution of embryonic development in Diptera. We demonstrate that flies experienced three episodes of rapid radiation—lower Diptera (220 Ma), lower Brachycera (180 Ma), and Schizophora (65 Ma)—and a number of life history transitions to hematophagy, phytophagy, and parasitism in the history of fly evolution over 260 million y.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2023
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 1998
DOI: 10.1071/IT97019
Abstract: The Australian Anthracini are revised. In all, 28 new species are described, bringing the total fauna to 34 species. The previously described species of Anthrax Scopoli – A. maculatus Macquart, A. incomptus Walker, A. confluensisRoberts, A. lepidiotus Roberts and A. proconcisus Hardy – are diagnosed and the following eight new species of Anthrax are described: A. argentia, A. asciculus, A. clinatus, A. crenatus, A. dolabratus, A. funestus, A. opacus and A. torulus. This taxonomic study reveals a group of at least 20 cryptic species previously included in collections under the name Anthrax angularis Thomson. A new genus, Thraxan, is erected to contain this cryptic group of species and the following 20 new species are described: T. acutus, T. abditus, T. caligneus, T. cinctus, T. cornuatus, T. depressus, T. echinatus, T. ebenus, T. emicatus, T. hamulus, T. luteus, T. misatulus, T. nodus, T. norrisi, T. obstipus, T. patielus, T. planus, T. prolatus, T. simulatusand T. spiculus. Many of these cryptic species have been collected sympatrically, hill topping together in eastern Australia. A key is provided to the species of Anthrax and Thraxan, genitalia drawings are presented for most species and distribution maps of all species are presented. A cladistic analysis of the species of Anthrax and Thraxan is also presented. A total of 26 of the species is compared for 125 synapomorphies in 39 adult morphological characters. Three species-groups were found: Thraxan, and two species-groups within Anthrax, the A. proconcisus species-group and the A. maculatusspecies-group. Previous authors ided Anthrax into species-groups on the basis of wing patterns, but found that these species-groups were not confirmed when other characters were taken into consideration. We studied the congruence of seven different character sets within the clade comprising Anthrax and Thraxan – antennae, venation, wing patterns, vestiture, genitalia, male genitalia and female genitalia – using several incongruence indices. Significance of incongruence was measured using a randomisation procedure. Results of these studies indicate that the wing-pattern character set is significantly incongruent with the other morphological data. These quantitative cladistic results explain the difficulty previous authors experienced in finding suites of characters to support species-groups in Anthrax on the basis of wing patterns. A relationship is found between the level of incongruence and the distance over which mate-recognition signals operate.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-02-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12449
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 02-1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-01-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12326
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Date: 27-04-2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-1998
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 07-01-2012
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV-ENTO-120710-100538
Abstract: Most species on Earth are insects and thus, understanding their evolutionary relationships is key to understanding the evolution of life. Insect relationships are increasingly well supported, due largely to technological advances in molecular sequencing and phylogenetic computational analysis. In this postgenomic era, insect systematics will be furthered best by integrative methods aimed at hypothesis corroboration from molecular, morphological, and paleontological evidence. This review of the current consensus of insect relationships provides a foundation for comparative study and offers a framework to evaluate incoming genomic evidence. Notable recent phylogenetic successes include the resolution of Holometabola, including the identification of the enigmatic Strepsiptera as a beetle relative and the early ergence of Hymenoptera the recognition of hexapods as a crustacean lineage within Pancrustacea and the elucidation of Dictyoptera orders, with termites placed as social cockroaches. Regions of the tree that require further investigation include the earliest winged insects (Palaeoptera) and Polyneoptera (orthopteroid lineages).
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-1996
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1992
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12485
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMPEV.2013.04.030
Abstract: Phylogenetic relationships within the Tabanidae are largely unknown, despite their considerable medical and ecological importance. The first robust phylogenetic hypothesis for the horse fly tribe Scionini is provided, completing the systematic placement of all tribes in the subfamily Pangoniinae. The Scionini consists of seven mostly southern hemisphere genera distributed in Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand and South America. A 5757 bp alignment of 6 genes, including mitochondrial (COI and COII), ribosomal (28S) and nuclear (AATS and CAD regions 1, 3 and 4) genes, was analysed for 176 taxa using both Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches. Results indicate the Scionini are strongly monophyletic, with the exclusion of the only northern hemisphere genus Goniops. The South American genera Fidena, Pityocera and Scione were strongly monophyletic, corresponding to current morphology-based classification schemes. The most widespread genus Scaptia was paraphyletic and formed nine strongly supported monophyletic clades, each corresponding to either the current subgenera or several previously synonymised genera that should be formally resurrected. Molecular results also reveal a newly recognised genus endemic to New Zealand, formerly placed within Scaptia. Divergence time estimation was employed to assess the global biogeographical patterns in the Pangoniinae. These analyses demonstrated that the Scionini are a typical Gondwanan group whose ersification was influenced by the fragmentation of that ancient land mass. Furthermore, results indicate that the Scionini most likely originated in Australia and subsequently radiated to New Zealand and South American by both long distance dispersal and vicariance. The phylogenetic framework of the Scionini provided herein will be valuable for taxonomic revisions of the Tabanidae.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2002
DOI: 10.1038/419337A
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-07-2020
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12482
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12361
Publisher: Australian Museum
Date: 24-06-2020
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 1996
DOI: 10.1071/IT9960047
Abstract: The endemic Australian bee fly genus Neosardus Roberts is revised. The genus is diagnosed, and diagnoses are provided for the five species described by previous authors, N. principius Roberts, N. circumdatus Roberts, N. lepidus Roberts, N. nigratus Roberts and N. paramonovi Hull. The following 13 new species are described: N. decus, sp. nov., N. vicinus, sp. nov., N. eremae, sp. nov., N. millstreamensis, sp. nov., N. phaleratus, sp. nov., N. australis, sp. nov., N. danielsi, sp. nov., N. sparsus, sp. nov., N. elegans, sp. nov., N. rieki, sp. nov., N. percultus, sp. nov., N. cosmus, sp. nov., and N. fenestratus, sp. nov. The wings of six species and male genitalia of seven species are illustrated, as are the female genitalia of one species. A key is provided to all species and distributions of all widespread species are mapped.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-07-2013
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12044
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 16-04-2021
Abstract: Lebambromyia sacculifera sp. nov. is described from Late Cretaceous amber from Myanmar, integrating traditional observation techniques and X-ray phase contrast microtomography. Lebambromyia sacculifera is the second species of Lebambromyia after L. acrai Grimaldi and Cumming, described from Lebanese amber (Early Cretaceous), and the first record of this taxon from Myanmar amber, considerably extending the temporal and geographic range of this genus. The new specimen bears a previously undetected set of phylogenetically relevant characters such as a postpedicel sacculus and a prominent clypeus, which are shared with Ironomyiidae and Eumuscomorpha. Our cladistic analyses confirmed that Lebambromyia represented a distinct monophyletic lineage related to Platypezidae and Ironomyiidae, though its affinities are strongly influenced by the interpretation and coding of the enigmatic set of features characterizing these fossil flies.
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Date: 25-08-2014
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3856.3.2
Abstract: Collection data and biological information is presented on the Fergusobia (Nematoda: Neotylenchidae)/ Fergusonina (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) mutualism inducing galls on Angophora in Australia. Three species and two morphospecies have been recognised. Fergusobia colbrani Davies n. sp. is described from soft spheroid leaf galls on Angophora floribunda. It is characterised by a combination of morphological characters including a small C-shaped parthenogenetic female with a short broadly conoid tail, an arcuate infective female with an almost hemispherical tail tip, and an arcuate to barely J-shaped male with an angular spicule having a notched tip and mid-length leptoderan bursa. A key to the species and morphospecies of nematodes collected from Angophora is presented. Possible relationships of these organisms are discussed based on evidence from the nematode morphology, gall forms, and the morphology of the dorsal shield of the associated Fergusonina fly larvae.
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Date: 30-09-2014
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.E4016
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 07-11-2014
Abstract: Insects are the most erse group of animals, with the largest number of species. However, many of the evolutionary relationships between insect species have been controversial and difficult to resolve. Misof et al. performed a phylogenomic analysis of protein-coding genes from all major insect orders and close relatives, resolving the placement of taxa. The authors used this resolved phylogenetic tree together with fossil analysis to date the origin of insects to ~479 million years ago and to resolve long-controversial subjects in insect phylogeny. Science , this issue p. 763
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.YMPEV.2012.05.006
Abstract: With well over 700 species, the Tribe Dacini is one of the most species-rich clades within the dipteran family Tephritidae, the true fruit flies. Nearly all Dacini belong to one of two very large genera, Dacus Fabricius and Bactrocera Macquart. The distribution of the genera overlap in or around the Indian subcontinent, but the greatest ersity of Dacus is in Africa and the greatest ersity of Bactrocera is in south-east Asia and the Pacific. The monophyly of these two genera has not been rigorously established, with previous phylogenies only including a small number of species and always heavily biased to one genus over the other. Moreover, the subgeneric taxonomy within both genera is complex and the monophyly of many subgenera has not been explicitly tested. Previous hypotheses about the biogeography of the Dacini based on morphological reviews and current distributions of taxa have invoked an out-of-India hypothesis however this has not been tested in a phylogenetic framework. We attempted to resolve these issues with a dated, molecular phylogeny of 125 Dacini species generated using 16S, COI, COII and white eye genes. The phylogeny shows that Bactrocera is not monophyletic, but rather consists of two major clades: Bactrocera s.s. and the 'Zeugodacus group of subgenera' (a recognised, but informal taxonomic grouping of 15 Bactrocera subgenera). This 'Zeugodacus' clade is the sister group to Dacus, not Bactrocera and, based on current distributions, split from Dacus before that genus moved into Africa. We recommend that taxonomic consideration be given to raising Zeugodacus to genus level. Supportive of predictions following from the out-of-India hypothesis, the first common ancestor of the Dacini arose in the mid-Cretaceous approximately 80mya. Major ergence events occurred during the Indian rafting period and ersification of Bactrocera apparently did not begin until after India docked with Eurasia (50-35mya). In contrast, ersification in Dacus, at approximately 65mya, apparently began much earlier than predicted by the out-of-India hypothesis, suggesting that, if the Dacini arose on the Indian plate, then ancestral Dacus may have left the plate in the mid to late Cretaceous via the well documented India-Madagascar-Africa migration route. We conclude that the phylogeny does not disprove the predictions of an out-of-India hypothesis for the Dacini, although modification of the original hypothesis is required.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 12-03-2014
DOI: 10.1111/BIJ.12237
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 1999
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV.ENTO.44.1.397
Abstract: ▪ Abstract The order Diptera (true flies) is one of the most species-rich and ecologically erse clades of insects. The order probably arose in the Permian, and the main lineages of flies were present in the Triassic. A novel recent proposal suggests that Strepsiptera are the sister-order to Diptera. Within Diptera, evidence is convincing for the monophyly of Culicomorpha, Blephariceromorpha, and Tipulomorpha but weak for the monophyly of the other basal infraorders and for the relationships among them. The lower Diptera (Nematocera) is paraphyletic with respect to Brachycera, and morphological evidence suggests the sister-group of Brachycera lies in the Psychodomorpha. Recent analyses suggest Tipulomorpha are closer to the base of Brachycera than to the base of Diptera. Brachycera are undoubtedly monophyletic, but relationships between the basal lineages of this group are poorly understood. The monophyly of Stratiomyomorpha, Xylophagomorpha, Tabanomorpha, and Muscomorpha is well supported. Eremoneura, and its constituent clades Empidoidea and Cyclorrhapha, are monophyletic. The sister-group of Eremoneura is likely to be part or all of Asiloidea. Several viewpoints on the homology of the male genitalia of eremoneuran flies are discussed. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that lower Cyclorrhapha (Aschiza) are paraphyletic however, schizophoran monophyly is well supported. The monophyly of Acalyptratae is not well-founded and the relationships between acalyptrate superfamilies remain obscure. Recent advances document the monophyly of the families of Calyptratae and the relationships among them. Areas critical to future advances in understanding dipteran phylogeny include the relationships among the basal infraorders of Diptera and Brachycera and the relationships between the superfamilies of acalyptrates. Progress in dipteran phylogenetics will accelerate with the exploration of novel data sources and the formulation of hypotheses in an explicitly quantitative framework.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Date: 09-2002
DOI: 10.1086/345159
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-09-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-10-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 1997
Abstract: Randomly lified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), successfully used to establish flower colour, is of limited importance in characterising weedy varieties of Lantana camara. Initially the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) region was sequenced for common pink and common pink-edged red varieties of L. camara from Australia and L. urticofolia from the neotropics. This proved unhelpful in differentiating varieties due to a lack of variation and the hybrid origin of L. camara, necessitating the utilisation of DNA profiling techniques. Unweighted pair group method arithmetic average (UPGMA) analysis of RAPD data demonstrated that geographical proximity contributes more significantly to genetic relatedness than flower colour. Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) likewise demonstrated that geography accounts for a relatively large variance component. These data indicate that the use of flower colour as a primary identification tool needs to be reevaluated. The use of RAPD may prove useful in characterising the weedy varieties of lantana present in Australia and the South Pacific. Since biological control efforts are being hindered by the inadequacy of current morphological taxonomy, it is expected that DNA profiling will underpin continuing studies on the management and control of L. camara.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-12-2012
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12013
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-04-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12333
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1999
Publisher: Magnolia Press
Date: 03-09-2014
DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.3860.1.4
Abstract: A new species of flower flies is described from China (Sichuan & Yunnan: Hengduan Mountains), Sericomyia khamensis Thompson & Xie). A key is provided to the species of the subtribe Sericomyiina found in China along with nomenclatural and taxonomical notes on them.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2000
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.5061/DRYAD.3C0F1
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-10-2018
DOI: 10.1111/AEN.12374
Location: Australia
Location: United States of America
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