Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the water boatmen (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Corixoidea)

Ye, Zhen; Damgaard, Jakob; Hädicke, Christian W.; Zhu, Xiuxiu; Mazzucconi, Silvia A.; Hebsgaard, Martin B.; Xie, Tong-Yin; Yang, Huanhuan; Bu, Wenjun

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107698

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“…Within Heteroptera, there are a few notable exceptions where stridulatory organs are nearly ubiquitous and very ancient. These include assassin bugs (Reduviidae) [likely origin of mechanism 178 million years ago (Mya) (Hwang & Weirauch, 2012;Weirauch, 2008)], the Corixidae (about 170 Mya; Ye et al, 2019Ye et al, , 2023, the Micronectidae (about 150 Mya; Ye et al, 2019Ye et al, , 2023, and the cydnoid families (earliest fossil about 145 Mya, likely appeared much earlier; Yao, Cai & Ren, 2007). In these four groups, secondary losses of stridulatory mechanisms are extremely rare (Grazia, Schuh & Wheeler, 2008;Cai, Chou & Lu, 1994;Lis & Heyna, 2001), suggesting that stridulation plays a ubiquitous adaptive role in the lives of its bearers, and that there is therefore long-term selective pressure for its maintenance.…”

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Sexual selection and predation drive the repeated evolution of stridulation in Heteroptera and other arthropods

2023

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Acoustic and substrate‐borne vibrations are among the most widely used signalling modalities in animals. Arthropods display a staggering diversity of vibroacoustic organs generating acoustic sound and/or substrate‐borne vibrations, and are fundamental to our broader understanding of the evolution of animal signalling. The primary mechanism that arthropods use to generate vibroacoustic signals is stridulation, which involves the rubbing together of opposing body parts. Although stridulation is common, its behavioural context and evolutionary drivers are often hard to pinpoint, owing to limited synthesis of empirical observations on stridulatory species. This is exacerbated by the diversity of mechanisms involved and the sparsity of their description in the literature, which renders their documentation a challenging task. Here, we present the most comprehensive review to date on the systematic distribution and behavioural context of stridulation. We use the megadiverse heteropteran insects as a model, together with multiple arthropod outgroups (arachnids, myriapods, and selected pancrustaceans). We find that stridulatory vibroacoustic signalling has evolved independently at least 84 times and is present in roughly 20% of Heteroptera, representing a remarkable case of convergent evolution. By studying the behavioural context of stridulation across Heteroptera and 189 outgroup lineages, we find that predation pressure and sexual selection are the main behaviours associated with stridulation across arthropods, adding further evidence for their role as drivers of large‐scale signalling and morphological innovation in animals. Remarkably, the absence of tympanal ears in most Heteroptera suggests that they typically cannot detect the acoustic component of their stridulatory signals. This demonstrates that the adoption of new signalling modalities is not always correlated with the ability to perceive those signals, especially when these signals are directed towards interspecific receivers in defensive contexts. Furthermore, by mapping their morphology and systematic distribution, we show that stridulatory organs tend to evolve in specific body parts, likely originating from cleaning motions and pre‐copulatory displays that are common to most arthropods. By synthesising our understanding of stridulation and stridulatory organs across major arthropod groups, we create the necessary framework for future studies to explore their systematic and behavioural significance, their potential role in sensory evolution and innovation, and the biomechanics of this mode of signalling.

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Section: Drivers Of Arthropod Stridulationmentioning

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Sexual selection and predation drive the repeated evolution of stridulation in Heteroptera and other arthropods

2023

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“…For instance, in the Southern Hemisphere, Parastacidae may have low recent diversification rates due to formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in the Miocene, and formation of the Antarctic ice sheets and glacial cycles (Owen et al., 2015 ). Conversely, more rapid diversification in Cambaridae in the Northern Hemisphere may have resulted from niche partitioning (e.g., temperate and cold zones) created by the breakup of Laurasia from Pangea as the landmass moved northward, as has been hypothesized for freshwater insects Corixinae (Ye et al., 2023 ). These differences in evolutionary history may contribute to low interspecific genetic distances (Cambaridae) or high interspecific genetic distances (i.e., low diversification rates in Parastacidae due to desiccation of Australia; Owen et al., 2015 ), and thus diminish versus enhance the existence and/or magnitude of global barcoding gaps within genera.…”

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DNA barcoding is currently unreliable for species identification in most crayfishes

Allison,

Pickich,

Barnett

et al. 2024

Ecology and Evolution

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DNA barcoding is commonly used for species identification. Despite this, there has not been a comprehensive assessment of the utility of DNA barcoding in crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea). Here we examined the extent to which local barcoding gaps (used for species identification) and global barcoding gaps (used for species discovery) exist among crayfishes, and whether global gaps met a previously suggested 10× threshold (mean interspecific difference being 10× larger than mean intra specific difference). We examined barcoding gaps using publicly available mitochondrial COI sequence data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information's nucleotide database. We created two versions of the COI datasets used for downstream analyses: one focused on the number of unique haplotypes (NH) per species, and another that focused on total number of sequences (NS; i.e., including redundant haplotypes) per species. A total of 81 species were included, with 58 species and five genera from the family Cambaridae and 23 species from three genera from the family Parastacidae. Local barcoding gaps were present in only 30 species (20 Cambaridae and 10 Parastacidae species). We detected global barcoding gaps in only four genera (Cambarus, Cherax, Euastacus, and Tenuibranchiurus), which were all below (4.2× to 5.2×) the previously suggested 10× threshold. We propose that a ~5× threshold would be a more appropriate working hypothesis for species discovery. While the NH and NS datasets yielded largely similar results, there were some discrepant inferences. To understand why some species lacked a local barcoding gap, we performed species delimitation analyses for each genus using the NH dataset. These results suggest that current taxonomy in crayfishes may be inadequate for the majority of examined species, and that even species with local barcoding gaps present may be in need of taxonomic revisions. Currently, the utility of DNA barcoding for species identification and discovery in crayfish is quite limited, and caution should be exercised when mitochondrial‐based approaches are used in place of taxonomic expertise. Assessment of the evidence for local and global barcoding gaps is important for understanding the reliability of molecular species identification and discovery, but outcomes are dependent on the current state of taxonomy. As this improves (e.g., via resolving species complexes, possibly elevating some subspecies to the species‐level status, and redressing specimen misidentifications in natural history and other collections), so too will the utility of DNA barcoding.

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“…The superfamily Corixoidea, which has more than 600 extant species, is one of the largest superfamilies of Nepomorpha (Ye et al. 2023 ). No complete mitochondrial genome of Corixidae species has been described yet, except for the partial mitochondrial genome of S. septemlineata .…”

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The complete mitochondrial genome of Sigara lateralis (Leach, 1817) (Nepomorpha: Corixidae)

Wei,

Guo,

Liu

et al. 2024

Mitochondrial DNA Part B

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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the water boatmen (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Corixoidea)

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

Sexual selection and predation drive the repeated evolution of stridulation in Heteroptera and other arthropods

Sexual selection and predation drive the repeated evolution of stridulation in Heteroptera and other arthropods

DNA barcoding is currently unreliable for species identification in most crayfishes

The complete mitochondrial genome of Sigara lateralis (Leach, 1817) (Nepomorpha: Corixidae)

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