Integrative Taxonomy of the Gall Mite Nothopoda todeica n. sp. (Eriophyidae) from the Disjunct Afro-Australasian Fern Todea barbara : Morphology, Phylogeny, and Mitogenomics.

Autor: Chetverikov PE; Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia., Craemer C; Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research, 231 Morrin Road, Auckland 1072, New Zealand., Gankevich VD; Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia., Zhuk AS; Institute of Applied Computer Science, ITMO University, 191002 St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Insects [Insects] 2023 May 31; Vol. 14 (6). Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 31.
DOI: 10.3390/insects14060507
Abstrakt: Eriophyoidea is a group of phytoparasitic mites with poorly resolved phylogeny. Previous studies inferred Eriophyidae s.l. as the largest molecular clade of Eriophyoidea, and Nothopodinae as the basal divergence of Eriophyidae s.l. We investigate the morphology and molecular phylogeny of Nothopoda todeica n. sp. (Nothopodinae, Nothopodini), associated with a disjunct Afro-Australasian fern Todea barbara (Osmundaceae) from South Africa. Our analyses (1) determine new erroneous sequences (KF782375, KF782475, KF782586) wrongly assigned to Nothopodinae instead of Phyllocoptinae, (2) confirm the basal position of Nothopodinae in Eriophyoidea s.l., (3) question the monophyly of the Colopodacini and Nothopodini tribes, and (4) show the nested position of African fern-associated Nothopoda within a clade dominated by Asian nothopodines from angiosperms, which implies (a) a secondary association of nothopodines with ferns and (b) no relation between geography (continents) and the phylogenetic relationships of Nothopodinae species. Finally, we obtained a first complete mitochondrial genome for Nothopodinae and revealed a new gene order in the mitogenome of N. todeica n. sp. , notably deviating from those in other investigated eriophyoids. Our results contribute to resolving the phylogeny of Eriophyoidea and provide an example of an integrative study of a new taxon belonging to an economically important group of acariform mites.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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