2.5. Megalopodidae Latreille, 1802

Lawrence, John F.; Ślipińki, Adam

doi:10.1515/9783110274462.178

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“…Kingsolver, 2002, accepted Bruchidae as a family), whereas Megalopodidae (including Palophaginae as a subfamily following Kuschel & May, 1990) and Orsodacnidae (including Aulacoscelidinae as a subfamily following Kuschel &May, 1990 andReid, 1995) are separate families (e.g. Clark & Riley, 2002;Riley et al, 2003;Clark et al, 2004;Lawrence &Ślipiński, 2013Lawrence &Ślipiński, , 2014aLöbl & Smetana, 2010;Bouchard et al, 2011).…”

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“…They were apparently not aware that their key to families of Chrysomeloidea based on male and female genitalia did not fit the peculiar genitalia of Oxypeltidae (see Fragoso, 1985;Svacha & Lawrence, 2014). Oxypeltidae and Palophaginae share a 'Gondwanan' distribution (southern South America, Palophaginae also occur in Australia) and their known hosts -Araucaria and probably Agathis (Araucariaceae) for Palophaginae (Lawrence &Ślipiński, 2014a) and Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae) for Oxypeltidae -are currently also restricted to the Southern Hemisphere. Thus, despite the dissimilar adults and biology (tree boring vs pollen feeding larvae), the relationship of Oxypeltidae and Palophaginae is supported, or at least not contradicted, by a variety of data in addition to the consistent support from molecular data.…”

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Anchored hybrid enrichment provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae)

Haddad

Shin

Lemmon

et al. 2017

Systematic Entomology

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Abstract. Cerambycidae is a species-rich family of mostly wood-feeding (xylophagous) beetles containing nearly 35 000 known species. The higher-level phylogeny of Cerambycidae has never been robustly reconstructed using molecular phylogenetic data or a comprehensive sample of higher taxa, and its internal relationships and evolutionary history remain the subjects of ongoing debate. We reconstructed the higher-level phylogeny of Cerambycidae using phylogenomic data from 522 single copy nuclear genes, generated via anchored hybrid enrichment. Our taxon sample (31 Chrysomeloidea, four outgroup taxa: two Curculionoidea and two Cucujoidea) included exemplars of all families and 23 of 30 subfamilies of Chrysomeloidea (18 of 19 non-chrysomelid Chrysomeloidea), with a focus on the large family Cerambycidae. Our results reveal a monophyletic Cerambycidae s.s. in all but one analysis, and a polyphyletic Cerambycidae s.l. When monophyletic, Cerambycidae s.s. was sister to the family Disteniidae. Relationships among the subfamilies of Cerambycidae s.s. were also recovered with strong statistical support except for Cerambycinae being made paraphyletic by Dorcasomus Audinet-Serville (Dorcasominae) in the nucleotide (but not amino acid) trees. Most other chrysomeloid families represented by more than one terminal taxon -Chrysomelidae, Disteniidae, Vesperidae and Orsodacnidae -were monophyletic, but Megalopodidae was rendered paraphyletic by Cheloderus Gray (Oxypeltidae). Our study corroborates some relationships within Chrysomeloidea that were previously inferred from morphological data, while also reporting several novel relationships. The present work thus provides a robust framework for future, more deeply taxon-sampled, phylogenetic and evolutionary studies of the families and subfamilies of Cerambycidae s.l. and other Chrysomeloidea.

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Anchored hybrid enrichment provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae)

Haddad

Shin

Lemmon

et al. 2017

Systematic Entomology

106

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“…flavomaculatus. There are records of Mastostethus in plants of the families Bignoniaceae, Verbenaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and Amaranthaceae (Jolivet, 1988;Lawrence & Slipinski, 2014). In Brazil, there are no records of host plants for this species.…”

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“…Megalopodidae are associated with a wide variety of host plants, including families as Solanaceae, Asteraceae, Euphorbiaceae, Oleaceae, and Fabaceae (Jolivet, 1988;Lawrence & Slipinski, 2014). Despite this, host plants are known for few species, and in South America, Megalopodinae are most associated with Solanaceae (Rodríguez-Mirón, 2018).…”

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Megalopodidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): new occurrence and host plant records for Brazil

2021

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The Brazilian Megalopodidae fauna consists of 147 species from 11 genera, of which Mastostethus Lacordaire is the most diverse, representing about half of the species. Nevertheless, knowledge about species distributions and their relationships with host plants is still scarce. Since this group has endophytic immatures and bore into branches, they are economically important as they mainly damage Solanaceae species. Thus, this study sought to determine the Megalopodidae species that occur in forest fragments of southwestern and western Paraná and associate them with their host plants. For this purpose, we used material collected with Malaise traps and active manual sampling to determine associations with host plants. A total of 170 specimens of 11 species were sampled, of which Pseudhomalopterus carinatus Pic, 1920 was the most abundant and collected in all fragments. Four species were sampled exclusively through manual collections and associated with their host plants, all of which were new association records for Brazilian megalopodides. Mastostethus pantherinus Lacordaire, 1845 was associated with an Asteraceae for the first time. Additionally, Mastostethus minutus Monrós, 1947 is a new record for Brazil.

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Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog‐legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae)

Krell

Vitali

2021

Papers in Palaeontology

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A new fossil leaf beetle species, Pulchritudo attenboroughi (Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae), is described from the Eocene Green River Formation in Colorado and is the second known fossil representative of this subfamily from North America. The fossil stands out by its remarkable preservation of elytral patterns. Such sharp and high-contrast preservation of exoskeletal colouration is extremely rare in the fossil record of beetles and unique in its definition and fidelity. Sagrinae currently do not occur in North America, but two extant species are present in tropical and subtropical South America, one of which is similar in several aspects to the new fossil. Many extant Sagrinae live in a warm, humid climate similar to that suggested for the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum of the Green River Formation.

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2.5. Megalopodidae Latreille, 1802

Cited by 8 publications

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Anchored hybrid enrichment provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae)

Anchored hybrid enrichment provides new insights into the phylogeny and evolution of longhorned beetles (Cerambycidae)

Megalopodidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): new occurrence and host plant records for Brazil

Attenborough's beauty: exceptional pattern preservation in a frog‐legged leaf beetle from the Eocene Green River Formation, Colorado (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Sagrinae)

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