Cladistic analysis of Egyptian horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) based on morphological data

El-Hassan, Gawhara M.M. Abu; Badrawy, Haitham Badrawy Mousa; Mohammad, Salwa K.; Fadl, Hassan H.

doi:10.21608/eajbsa.2010.15189

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“…They found no support for Mackerras' subfamilies in their study. El‐Hassan et al () used 91 morphological characters scored only from Egyptian exemplars and found that Atylotus Osten Sacken and Tabanus may be nonmonophyletic. Cywinska et al () collected Cytochrome Oxidase I sequences for many species of Canadian Tabanidae.…”

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Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: a framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy

Morita

Bayless

Wiegmann

2015

Systematic Entomology

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Horse flies, family Tabanidae, are the most diverse family-level clade of bloodsucking insects, but their phylogeny has never been thoroughly explored using molecular data. Most adult female Tabanidae feed on nectar and on the blood of various mammals. Traditional horse fly classification tends towards large heterogeneous taxa, which impede much-needed taxonomic work. To guide renewed efforts in the systematics of horse flies and their relatives, we assembled a dataset of 110 exemplar species using nucleotide data from four genes -mitochondrial CO1, and nuclear 28S, CAD and AATS. All commonly recognized tribes in Tabanidae are represented, along with outgroups in Tabanomorpha. The phylogeny is reconstructed using Bayesian inference, and divergence times are estimated using Bayesian relaxed clock methods with time constraints from tabanid fossils. Our results show Athericidae strongly supported as the lineage most closely related to Tabanidae, and Pangoniinae and Tabaninae as monophyletic lineages. However, Chrysopsinae is nonmonophyletic, with strong support for both a nonmonophyletic Bouvieromyiini and for Rhinomyzini as sister to Tabaninae. Only the tribes Philolichini, Chrysopsini, Rhinomyzini and Haematopotini are recovered as monophyletic, although Scionini is monophyletic with exclusion of the peculiar genus Goniops Aldrich. Mycteromyia Philippi and Adersia Austen, two enigmatic genera sometimes placed in separate family-level groups, are recovered inside Pangoniini and Chrysopsini, respectively. Several species-rich genera are not recovered as monophyletic, including Esenbeckia Rondani, Silvius Meigen, Dasybasis Macquart and Tabanus L. Tabanidae likely originated in the Cretaceous, and all major extant groups were present by the early Palaeogene. This newly revised phylogenetic framework for Tabanidae forms the basis for a new assessment of tabanid diversification and provides context for understanding the evolution of trophic specialization in horse flies.

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Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: a framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy

Morita

Bayless

Wiegmann

2015

Systematic Entomology

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“…At present, the tabanid fauna of the Levant is only fragmentarily described, no valid checklists exist from Syria and Lebanon (Surcouf 1926), and in Iraq (Leclercq 1963), Israel (Theodor 1965), and Egypt (Abu El‐Hassan et al 2010) no solid surveys were performed for many decades. Even for the well‐researched Saudi Arabia, Leclercq (2000) recently emphasized that there is still a great need for further investigations.…”

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New records for the horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Jordan with remarks on ecology and zoogeography

Müller¹,

Hogsette²,

Revay³

et al. 2011

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“…Lebanon is known for its diverse flora (Danin 1988) and fauna (Kosswig 1955), but the knowledge about horse flies is only fragmentary (Leclercq 1960, 1966). In contrast, the fauna of Turkey (Kilic 2006), Saudi Arabia (Leclercq 2000) Jordan (Al‐Talafha et al 2004, 2005, Müller et al 2011b), Israel (Theodor 1965), and Egypt (Efflatoun 1930, Abu El‐Hassan et al 2010) is relatively well known.…”

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An annotated checklist of the horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Lebanon with remarks on ecology and zoogeography: Pangoniinae and Chrysopsinae

Müller¹,

Zeegers²,

Hogsette³

et al. 2012

Journal of Vector Ecology

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Knowledge of the horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Lebanon is fragmentary, while the local fauna of most neighboring countries has been fairly well researched. Within the framework of the 20-year project "The ecology and zoogeography of the Lepidoptera of the Near East, " we regularly collected biting flies in the whole region, including Lebanon. During this time we recorded 14 horse fly species for two subfamilies in Lebanon: four Pangoniinae and ten Chrysopsinae. Only a single species, Chrysops flavipes Meigen, 1804, was known previously in Lebanon, but the following four Pangoniinae:

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Cladistic analysis of Egyptian horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) based on morphological data

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: a framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy

Molecular phylogeny of the horse flies: a framework for renewing tabanid taxonomy

New records for the horse fly fauna (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Jordan with remarks on ecology and zoogeography

An annotated checklist of the horse flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of Lebanon with remarks on ecology and zoogeography: Pangoniinae and Chrysopsinae

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