Open AccessPhylogeny and higher classificationof suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’)
Author(s) -
Yoshizawa Kazunori
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
zoological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.148
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1096-3642
pISSN - 0024-4082
DOI - 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00036.x
Subject(s) - biology , autapomorphy , monophyly , cladistics , psocoptera , zoology , clade , taxon , polyphyly , taxonomy (biology) , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology , ecology , gene , biochemistry
Phylogenetic relationships among all 24 families ofsuborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: ‘Psocoptera’)are inferred based on adult morphology. Monophyly of Psocomorphais strongly supported by six autapomorphies. The presently acceptedfour infraorders − Psocetae, Homilopsocidea, Epipsocetaeand Caeciliusetae − are regarded as monophyletic, but Archipsocidaeand Hemipsocidae, previously assigned to Homilopsocidea and Psocetae,respectively, are regarded as the basalmost clades of the suborder.Based on the results of the cladistic analysis, a higher classificationfor Psocomorpha is proposed. Six infraorders (two new − Archipsocetae,Hemipsocetae − and the four aforementioned) are recognized.Four new superfamilies are recognized within Homilopsocidea: Elipsocoidea, Lachesilloidea,Pseudocaecilioidea and Peripsocoidea . Two superfamiliesare recognized within Caeciliusetae: Asiopsocoidea and Caeciliusoidea.Descriptions of taxa above family level are provided. © 2002The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal ofthe Linnean Society , 2002, 136 , 371−400