A first higher-level time-calibrated phylogeny of antlions (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

Michel, Bruno; Clamens, Anne‐Laure; Béthoux, Olivier; Kergoat, Gaël J.; Condamine, Fabien L.

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.10.014

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“…Nevertheless, because of extremely limited sampling of owlfly exemplars, and to a lesser degree the narrow bandwidth and/or type of data employed in each study, the results regarding the constitution within the owlflies, and the relationship(s) of their constituent clades to the antlions, have been inconclusive. Some common patterns, however, have been observed, namely proximate relationships of the owlflies to the Stilbopteryginae and Palparinae (Henry, ; Stange, ; Winterton et al, ; Winterton et al, ; Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Cerretti, ; Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Haring, ; Michel et al, ; Machado et al, ), which have verified to some degree long hypothesized alliances based on morphology, particularly with regard to Stilbopteryginae (e.g., van der Weele, ; Tillyard in Hacker, ; Riek, ; New, ), but also Palparinae (Kimmins, ).…”

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“…| 763 JONES amount of phylogenetic data (Aspöck et al, 2001;Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Haring, 2017;Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Cerretti, 2017;Gao et al, 2018;Henry, 1978c;Jones, 2014;Lan et al, 2016;Machado et al, 2018;Michel et al, 2017;Riek, 1976;Song et al, 2019Song et al, , 2018Stange, 1994;Wang et al, 2017;Winterton et al, 2010Winterton et al, , 2018Zhang & Yang, 2017).…”

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“…These studies variously have been based on analyses of morphology (Aspöck et al, 2001;Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Haring, 2017;Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Cerretti, 2017;Henry, 1978c;Stange, 1994;Winterton et al, 2010); entire mitochondrial (mt) genomes (Gao et al, 2018;Lan et al, 2016;Song et al, 2019Song et al, , 2018Wang et al, 2017); partial nuclear (nu) genomes (Machado et al, 2018;Winterton et al, 2018); partial nuclear genome amino acid sequences ; mt-and nu-DNA markers (Badano, Aspöck, Aspöck, & Haring, 2017;Michel et al, 2017); or combined mt-DNA and nu-DNA markers and morphology (="total evidence": Jones, 2014;Winterton et al, 2010). In a general sense, then, data sampling across these surveys has been broad.…”

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Total‐evidence phylogeny of the owlflies (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae) supports a new higher‐level classification

Jones

2019

Zoologica Scripta

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The first large‐scale, total‐evidence phylogeny of the owlflies (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae) is presented. A combined morphological and molecular dataset was analysed under several analytical regimes for 76 exemplars of Myrmeleontiformia (Psychopsidae, Nymphidae, Nemopteridae, Myrmeleontidae, Ascalaphidae), including 57 of Ascalaphidae. At the subordinal level, the families were recovered in all analyses in the form Psychopsidae + (Nymphidae + (Nemopteridae + (Myrmeleontidae + Ascalaphidae). In the DNA‐only maximum‐likelihood analysis, Ascalaphidae were recovered as paraphyletic with respect to the Myrmeleontidae and the tribe Ululodini. In both the parsimony and Bayesian total‐evidence analyses, however, the latter with strong support, traditional Ascalaphidae were recovered as monophyletic, and in the latter, Stilbopteryginae were placed as the immediate sister group. The long‐standing subfamilies Haplogleniinae and Ascalaphinae were not recovered as monophyletic in any analysis, nor were several of the included tribes of non‐ululodine Ascalaphinae. The Ululodini were monophyletic and well supported in all analyses, as were the New World Haplogleniinae and, separately, the African/Malagasy Haplogleniinae. The remaining Ascalaphidae, collectively, were also consistently cohesive, but included a genus that until now has been placed in the Haplogleniinae, Protidricerus. Protidricerus was discovered to express a well‐developed pleurostoma, a feature previously only encountered in divided‐eye owlflies. The feature traditionally used to differentiate the Haplogleniinae and Ascalaphinae, the entire or divided eye, can no longer be regarded as a spot‐diagnostic synapomorphy to separate these groups within the family. A new subfamilial classification based on these results is proposed and includes the following five subfamilies: Albardiinae, Ululodinae, Haplogleniinae, Melambrotinae and Ascalaphinae. In addition, the monophyletic containing group (Myrmeleontidae + (Palparidae + (Stilbopterygidae + Ascalaphidae))) is elevated to the rank of superfamily, as Myrmeleontoidea, in order to accommodate much‐needed taxonomic and nomenclatural restructuring anticipated to occur within the Ascalaphidae in the future. A list of genera included in each subfamily of Ascalaphidae is provided.

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Total‐evidence phylogeny of the owlflies (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae) supports a new higher‐level classification

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2019

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“…In agreement with Stange (1994Stange ( , 2004, Nemoleontini was reconstructed as monophyletic, although it was only based on homoplasious apomorphies, thus obtaining only weak support. Michel et al (2017) also retrieved this tribe as monophyletic in a phylogenetic analysis of the family based on molecular data. However, Badano et al (2017), investigating the phylogeny of Myrmeleontiformia based on larval morphological characters, reconstructed Nemoleontini as paraphyletic with respect to Dendroleontini.…”

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“…The Western Palaearctic, including the Arabian peninsula (following the boundaries of H. Aspöck et al 2001), harbours a relatively rich fauna with at least 285 known species (H. Aspöck et al 2001, Oswald 2016. Despite the notable diversity and wide distribution of this family, the phylogeny of antlions has been poorly investigated and few studies have dealt with this subject in a modern quantitative approach (Badano et al 2017, Michel et al 2017. Moreover, one of the main problems afflicting the systematics of Myrmeleontidae is the poor characterisation of supraspecific taxa, thus making it difficult to trace the relationships among genera and to determine the placement of certain species.…”

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Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genera Gymnocnemia Schneider, 1845, and Megistopus Rambur, 1842, with remarks on the systematization of the tribe Nemoleontini (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae)

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Aspöck²,

Aspöck³

2017

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The delineation of antlion genera has often been based on morphological characters not tested in a phylogenetic context, thus seriously impairing the study of systematics of the family Myrmeleontidae. Nebulous generic limits also impede the taxonomy and study of the affinities of closely related species. As a case study, the generic placement of Megistopus mirabilis Hölzel, 1980, was based on a single leg character. To test the position of this species, the reciprocal relationships of the members of the genera Gymnocnemia Schneider, 1845, and Megistopus Rambur, 1842 were investigated, using a morphology-based phylogenetic analysis. This approach demonstrated that M. mirabilis should actually be assigned to the genus Gymnocnemia, as G. mirabilis comb. n. This analysis also supports the subdivision of the tribe Nemoleontini in two subclades based on morphology of male and female genitalia. A new characterisation of these genera is provided, as well as a redescription of the very rare G. mirabilis and the poorly investigated Megistopus lucasi ). An updated identification key to the members of the genera Gymnocnemia and Megistopus is presented.

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Biodiversity of the Neuropterida (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera)

Oswald

Machado

2018

Insect Biodiversity

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A first higher-level time-calibrated phylogeny of antlions (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae)

Cited by 35 publications

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Total‐evidence phylogeny of the owlflies (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae) supports a new higher‐level classification

Total‐evidence phylogeny of the owlflies (Neuroptera, Ascalaphidae) supports a new higher‐level classification

Taxonomy and phylogeny of the genera Gymnocnemia Schneider, 1845, and Megistopus Rambur, 1842, with remarks on the systematization of the tribe Nemoleontini (Neuroptera, Myrmeleontidae)

Biodiversity of the Neuropterida (Insecta: Neuroptera, Megaloptera, and Raphidioptera)

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