A New Species of<i>Schizaspidia</i>, with Discussion of the Phylogenetic Utility of Immature Stages for Assessing Relationships Among Eucharitid Parasitoids of Ants

Heraty, John M.; Mottern, Jason L.; Peeters, Christian

doi:10.1093/aesa/sav062

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“…utilizing Ponerinae, Ectatomminae and Myrmeciinae ants) that includes the Chalcura and Schizaspidia Clades, both of which are restricted to the Old World. This topological relationship and monophyly of the Kapala Clade was again recovered in a parsimony analysis of molecular data by Heraty et al (2015).…”

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“…1L) is a good example of what looks like a strategy of extreme protectionism. Although eucharitids outside of the Kapala Clade also have spines, those are probably convergent phenotypes that always arise from an ancestral form that lacks spines (Heraty, 2002;Murray et al, 2013;Heraty et al, 2015). We have not tested for spine selection that might be associated with the aggressiveness of the ant host.…”

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“…This topological relationship and monophyly of the Kapala Clade was again recovered in a parsimony analysis of molecular data by Heraty et al . ().…”

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Neotropical ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae): interpreting taxonomy, phylogeny and divergent morphologies

Murray

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2019

Systematic Entomology

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The Neotropical ‘Kapala Clade’ is a group of 13 described genera of ant parasitoids that includes some of the most morphologically bizarre members in the family Eucharitidae (Chalcidoidea). Across the Kapala Clade, various conspicuous morphological modifications – notably the long mesoscutellar spines – have led to the description of numerous genera. Monophyly of the clade has been supported in morphological and molecular analyses; however, relationships among genera within the clade are not easily resolved. Within this clade, there is one especially problematic taxon: Kapala Cameron is a common, diverse and easily recognizable genus, with species distributed across the Neotropical region north into the southern Nearctic, and one disjunct species found in the Afrotropical region. However, Kapala is defined by pleisiomorphic features – lacking the derived characters of the other Kapala Clade genera – with previous molecular evidence showing this genus to be paraphyletic. To evaluate relationships among Kapala Clade genera, we use a comprehensive sampling of 195 taxa and a molecular dataset of five gene regions. A morphological matrix of 52 characters was analysed both separately and combined with molecular data, which allowed rare genera to be incorporated into the phylogeny. Molecular results were at odds with the historic generic relationships, and the genus Kapala was rendered polyphyletic by two distinct clades of other kapaline genera. We find that there were bursts of morphological change clustered in the phylogeny; however, these are not correlated with higher rates of diversification. We discuss the timing of divergence events, analyse diversification patterns, and evaluate life‐history information within a phylogenetic context.

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Neotropical ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae): interpreting taxonomy, phylogeny and divergent morphologies

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2019

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“…Lasiokapala characters homoplastic with other members of the clade include four or five labral digits (17:1; shared with Latina ), callus densely pilose (57:1; shared with Kapala and Latina ), propodeal disc flat, evenly sculptured and with a pronounced carina bordering the disc (53:2; shared with Kapala and Thoracantha ) and calcar long, curved and bifid (72:0 shared with Kapala and Latina in part). Dorsally pectinate antennal segments in females are only rarely encountered in some distantly related genera within Eucharitidae (Heraty et al , , ).…”

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“…Video S1) further documented how Ectatomma pick up and transport adults of Kapala (related members within Eucharitini) using the paired long spines that extend from the posterior margin of the scutellum (Figs A–C, A–C). Given the aggressive behaviour of these ants, the spines may protect the wings during specimen transport out of the nest, and might account for their independent development in different Eucharitini (Heraty et al , ).…”

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Biology and phylogenetic placement of a new species of Lasiokapala Ashmead from Argentina (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae)

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Within the ant-parasitic wasp family Eucharitidae (Hymenoptera), the Kapala clade is a monophyletic group attacking Ectatomminae and Ponerinae. Members often express extreme phenotypic features, especially in the morphology of the paired frenal spines. Although the means of attack and developmental history of the eucharitid wasps within the ant nest are very similar, the means by which they oviposit and optimize encounters of their active first-instar larvae with ants is highly variable. The relationships and life-history strategies of Lasiokapala Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae) and related taxa within the Kapala clade are discussed based on phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data. Descriptions are provided for the adults (both sexes), eggs and planidia of Lasiokapala spiralicornis sp.n. from Santiago del Estero (Argentina). Females deposit their eggs on the underside of leaves of Sida cordifolia L. (Malvaceae) and the likely host is postulated to be the genus Ectatomma (Formicidae: Ectatomminae). Even within a closely related group of genera, there is extreme independent divergence in morphology of scutellar spines, antennae and other features, but the larvae and larval biology are highly conserved across a much larger group of Eucharitidae. This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid: zoobank.org:pub:3536985B-D193-4771-BFA3-25A59EFF6AB5.

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A New Species ofSchizaspidia, with Discussion of the Phylogenetic Utility of Immature Stages for Assessing Relationships Among Eucharitid Parasitoids of Ants

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Neotropical ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae): interpreting taxonomy, phylogeny and divergent morphologies

Neotropical ant parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae): interpreting taxonomy, phylogeny and divergent morphologies

Biology and phylogenetic placement of a new species of Lasiokapala Ashmead from Argentina (Hymenoptera: Eucharitidae)

Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea

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