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Phylogeny of New Zealand hepialid moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) inferred from a cladistic analysis of morphological data
Author(s) -
Brown B.,
Dugdale J. S.,
Emberson R. M.,
Paterson A. M.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2000.00089.x
Subject(s) - cladistics , biology , monophyly , taxon , zoology , phylogenetics , lepidoptera genitalia , taxonomy (biology) , phylogenetic tree , lineage (genetic) , genus , systematics , evolutionary biology , ecology , clade , biochemistry , gene
Summary The phylogeny of the New Zealand hepialid moths was estimated from a cladistic analysis of sixty‐three morphological characters, from all life cycle stages. One hundred and sixteen maximum parsimony trees were produced. The phylogenetic reconstruction indicated that the currently recognized generic concepts, and the four informal lineages hypothesized in a previous morphological taxonomic revision, were monophyletic. The relationships of species within genus Wiseana were not fully resolved. Analysis of a data set of thirty‐nine adult male characters from the New Zealand taxa and the Australian genera Jeana, Oxycanus and Trictena supported the monophyly of the New Zealand ‘ Oxycanus’ s.s lineage.