Karyotypes of three species of Hyperophora Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 (Tettigoniidae, Phaneropterinae) enable morphologically similar species to be distinguished

Autor: Bruno Cansanção Silva, Lucas Henrique Bonfim Souza, Juliana Chamorro-Rengifo, Douglas Araujo
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Comparative Cytogenetics, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 87-93 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1993-078X
1993-0771
DOI: 10.3897/CompCytogen.v13i1.31803
Popis: Phaneropterinae is the largest subfamily of Tettigoniidae, distributed across the globe. There are few cytogenetic studies regarding this group, as in the case of the genus group Aniarae, which represents only two karyotyped species. The current study aims to analyze cytogenetically three species of Hyperophora Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 from Brazil. The male diploid number of Hyperophora minor Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 and Hyperophora major Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 is 2n♂= 31, whereas Hyperophora brasiliensis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 has shown 2n♂= 29. These three species possess an X0 sex chromosome system and telo/acrocentric chromosome morphology. The only species found in the Pantanal biome, H. brasiliensis, can be chromosomally distinguished from the Cerrado biome species H. major and H. minor, due to the difference in chromosome number (2n♂= 29 and 2n♂= 31, respectively).
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