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Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera
Author(s) -
THORNE BARBARA L.,
CARPENTER JAMES M.
Publication year - 1992
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1992.tb00336.x
Subject(s) - blattodea , biology , dictyoptera , sister group , cladogram , zoology , taxon , neuroptera , cladistics , phylogenetics , evolutionary biology , ecology , clade , cockroach , larva , biochemistry , gene
. Relationships among six key dictyopteran taxa (Mantodea; Blattodea (excluding Cryptocercidae); Cryptocercidae; Mastotermes darwiniensis , Termopsidae and Kalotermitidae [Isoptera]) are analysed based on seventy morphological, developmental and behavioural characters. The fossil record and the ‘living fossil’ genera Cryptocercus, Mastotermes and Archotermopsis are discussed in detail. Exact analysis of the character state matrix by implicit enumeration (Hennig86) resulted in one cladogram, strongly supporting Blattodea + Cryptocercidae as a sister group to Mantodea, with the Isoptera as a sister group to that complex. Arrangements within the termites are equivocal, with Termopsidae and Mastotermes darwiniensis possible as the relatively most primitive element of Isoptera.