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Citation for Study 27458

About Citation title: "Morphological Phylogeny of Panorpidae (Mecoptera: Panorpoidea)".
About Study name: "Morphological Phylogeny of Panorpidae (Mecoptera: Panorpoidea)".
About This study is part of submission 27458 (Status: Published).

Citation

Wang J., & Hua B. 2021. Morphological Phylogeny of Panorpidae (Mecoptera: Panorpoidea). Systematic Entomology, 46(3): 526?557.

Authors

  • Wang J. (submitter)
  • Hua B.

Abstract

Panorpidae is the largest family of Mecoptera with approximately 500 described species in one extinct and eight extant genera. Although the phylogeny of Panorpidae was conducted by DNA sequences recently, the morphological phylogeny has not been comprehensively studied to date. Here, phylogenetic analyses of Panorpidae were conducted for 155 extant species in eight genera based on 182 morphological characters of adults under Maximum Parsimony and Maximum Likelihood, respectively, with two species of Choristidae and three species of Panorpodidae as outgroups. The resultant phylogenetic trees are basically consistent with those reconstructed in the molecular analyses, and support the monophyly of two major clades and all the extant genera except Panorpa and Neopanorpa, which may need further splitting. A new subfamily, Neopanorpinae subfam.n. is established to include Neopanorpa and Leptopanorpa, with all the other genera assigned to Panorpinae. We speculate that Panorpidae probably originated from East Asia, and the independent dispersal events very likely occurred at least twice for the Indonesian fauna, five times for the Japanese fauna, twice for the western Palearctic fauna, and four times for the Nearctic fauna.

Keywords

Mecoptera, Phylogeny, Maximum Parsimony, Morphology

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