Phylogenetic Placement of the Plesioclytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)

Abstract

The tribe Plesioclytini was recently erected for a single genus of cerambycine longhorn beetle. The group was diagnosed from a proposed sister lineage, the diverse Clytini; however, a formal phylogenetic analysis was not performed due to limitations in data availability. Here, we present a phylogenetic reconstruction from five loci, that Plesioclytini is not sister to Clytini, but is instead only distantly related. Subsequent morphological investigations provide additional support for this placement.

Polyphyly of the genus Stenurella (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae): Consensus of morphological and molecular data

“…This is caused by the fact that classical morphological taxonomy does not always adequately reflect the phylogenetic relationships between taxa due to numerous cases of parallel evolution, coevolution, homoplasia, etc. The rise of the new molecular system of the longhorn beetles occurs at different levels, starting with the species (Torres-Vila & Bonal, 2019;Zamoroka et al, 2019;Kajtoch et al, 2022) and genera (Kim et al, 2018;Karpiński et al, 2021), and ending with revision of higher taxa: tribes (Dascălu et al, 2021;Sutherland et al, 2021;Zamoroka, 2021), subfamilies (de Santana Souza et al, 2020;Lee & Lee, 2020) and the entire family (Nie et al, 2020). The solution to the problem of misinterpretations of phylogenetic relationships should be found by consensus of molecular methods and morphological data.…”