An integrative taxonomic and phylogenetic approach reveals a new Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp, Pseudopolybia cryptica sp. n. (Vespidae: Polistinae: Epiponini)
| Autor: | Sidnei Mateus, Marcos Aragão, Rodolpho S. T. Menezes, Alexandre Somavilla, P. C. S. Barroso |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Insecta Arthropoda Science social wasps 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Epiponini 03 medical and health sciences Pseudopolybia paper wasps Genetics Animalia integrative taxonomy molecular systematics Phylogenetic tree Vespidae biology mtDNA Swarm behaviour biology.organism_classification Hymenoptera Vespoidea 030104 developmental biology species delimitation Evolutionary biology Insect Science Polistinae |
| Zdroj: | Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 79: 25-35 Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, Vol 79, Iss, Pp 25-35 (2021) |
| ISSN: | 1864-8312 1863-7221 |
| DOI: | 10.3897/asp.79.e64304 |
| Popis: | Phenotypic characters are traditionally the main information for species discrimination in taxonomic studies of invertebrates. However, the presence of inter- and intraspecific polymorphism makes it difficult to identify species in many groups such as Neotropical social wasps. Herein, we examined different sources of biological information such as adult morphology, male genitalia, nest architecture, and genetic data applying an integrative taxonomic approach to study pinned museum specimens belonging to the social wasp genus Pseudopolybia de Saussure, 1863. Based on multiple independent lines of evidence, we described a new Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp, Pseudopolybia cryptica sp. n. Moreover, we proposed a phylogenetic hypothesis for Pseudopolybia including this new species. Our taxonomic findings applying an integrative approach reinforce that the social wasp diversity in the Neotropics may be underestimated due to morphological similarity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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