Systematics of the Sarcophaginae of the Oriental region based on the comparative morphology of the male genitalia (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Sugiyama, Etsuro; Kanō, Rokurō

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“…The 45 species included in the phylogenetic tree of his Sarcophaga group were mostly Nearctic and represented 20 of the subgenera recognized by Pape (1996). Sugiyama & Kano (1984) proposed a classification of the tribe Sarcophagini to address generic limits within the Oriental Sarcophaginae. They corroborated the monophyly of Sarcophaga with a phylogenetic analysis based on five genitalic characters of 112 species from 35 of the subgenera recognized by Pape (1996).…”

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“…The male genitalia also provide important characters for phylogenetic reconstruction (Roback, 1954; Sugiyama & Kano, 1984; Pape, 1994, 1998; Blackith, Blackith & Pape, 1997). However, because sarcophagine male genitalia are highly complex, genitalic characters used in generic diagnoses are often inconsistently defined or have obscure homologies.…”

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“…To date, there have been few explicit phylogenetic analyses of sarcophagid genera or subgenera. Roback (1954) and Sugiyama & Kano (1984) both used genitalic, mainly phallic, morphology to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Sarcophaginae, but the former suffers from a noncladistic approach and the latter from a very narrow systematic sampling through a strict focus on the Old World fauna. Lopes (1990) studied the phylogeny of the New World genera with male proclinate orbital bristles.…”

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Towards a phylogeny of the flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): morphology and phylogenetic implications of the acrophallus in the subfamily Sarcophaginae

Giroux

Pape

Wheeler

2010

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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The morphology of the acrophallus, the distal portion of the male phallus carrying the phallotreme, was studied in 72 exemplar species representing 56 genera and subgenera of the flesh fly subfamily Sarcophaginae. For 42 of those species, scanning electron microscopy was used to clarify the phallic morphology. Terms used to describe the male genitalia were updated based on new interpretations of homology. Male genitalic characters, combined with other morphological characters of adult males and females and of larvae, were used to construct a phylogeny. The monophyly of the subfamily was supported, and some generic-level sister-group relationships proposed in the literature, but without previous cladistic analyses, were also supported. The genus Blaesoxipha Loew, as currently recognized, was not monophyletic in our analysis. The genus Helicobia Coquillett is synonymized with Sarcophaga Meigen syn. nov. and treated as a subgenus of the latter. The Sarcophaga subgenera Neobellieria Blanchard and Mehria Enderlein were not monophyletic. Many of the clades in the analysis were supported primarily or exclusively by male genitalic character states, highlighting the importance of the male genitalia as a source of morphological characters for sarcophagine phylogeny.

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Towards a phylogeny of the flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): morphology and phylogenetic implications of the acrophallus in the subfamily Sarcophaginae

Giroux

Pape

Wheeler

2010

Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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“…Sugiyama & Kano () returned to a wider definition of Sarcophaga , based on a Hennigian approach. Pape () saw the advantages of returning to a more simplified classification of the genus.…”

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Phylogeny ofHeteronychia: the largest lineage ofSarcophaga(Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

2013

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Sarcophaga Meigen is one of the megadiverse genera of true flies, with approximately 850 valid species worldwide. The genus is divided into about 160 subgenera, the validity of a vast majority of which has never been verified using cladistic methods. This paper deals with the mainly Palaearctic subgenus Heteronychia Brauer & Bergenstamm, which comprises 89 species and is thus the largest subunit of Sarcophaga. We performed a cladistic analysis of the group based exclusively on male morphological characters. Parsimony analyses were run on a matrix of 84 characters for 88 species. Species of the subgenera Discachaeta Enderlein and Notoecus Stein were also included in the matrix. A further analysis was carried out using a subset of characters from the terminalia alone (70 characters). The results show that the clade formed by Heteronychia, Discachaeta, and Notoecus is monophyletic, with Discachaeta emerging as polyphyletic whereas Sarcophaga (Notoecus) longestylata Strobl is nested within the Sarcophaga filia‐group. Character states supporting Heteronychia and the few well‐supported species‐groups are discussed in detail. The following synonymies are proposed: Discachaeta = Heteronychia (syn. nov.) and Notoecus = Heteronychia (syn. nov.). The paper also includes a historical background of the taxon in relation to the classification of the genus Sarcophaga over the past two centuries, as well as a terminological review of the male terminalia, particularly of the distiphallus. © 2013 The Linnean Society of London

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“…Roback (1954) for the first time emphasized the need for understanding the phylogeny for a proper classification of sarcophagids and analysed the phylogeny of Nearctic sarcophagids based on comparative morphology of the male genitalia. Sugiyama and Kano (1984) have also analysed the phylogeny of Oriental sarcophagids on the basis of male genitalic character. However, the delineation of different genera and the relationships among them are still not clear.…”

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Mitochondrial DNA sequence-based phylogenetic relationship among flesh flies of the genus Sarcophaga (Sarcophagidae: Diptera)

Bajpai

Tewari

2010

J Genet

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The phylogenetic relationships among flesh flies of the family Sarcophagidae has been based mainly on the morphology of male genitalia. However, the male genitalic character-based relationships are far from satisfactory. Therefore, in the present study mitochondrial DNA has been used as marker to unravel genetic relatedness and to construct phylogeny among five sympatric species of the genus Sarcophaga. Two mitochondrial genes viz., cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) and NAD dehydrogenase subunit 5 (ND5) were sequenced and genetic distance values were calculated on the basis of sequence differences in both the mitochondrial genes. The data revealed very few genetic difference among the five species for the COI and ND5 gene sequences.

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Systematics of the Sarcophaginae of the Oriental region based on the comparative morphology of the male genitalia (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)

Abstract: Systematics of the Sarcophaginae of the Oriental region based on the eomparative morphology of the male genitalia

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Towards a phylogeny of the flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): morphology and phylogenetic implications of the acrophallus in the subfamily Sarcophaginae

Towards a phylogeny of the flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): morphology and phylogenetic implications of the acrophallus in the subfamily Sarcophaginae

Phylogeny ofHeteronychia: the largest lineage ofSarcophaga(Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Mitochondrial DNA sequence-based phylogenetic relationship among flesh flies of the genus Sarcophaga (Sarcophagidae: Diptera)

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