Morphological and Molecular (18S rDNA) Phylogeny of Five Species of Weevils in the Tribe Phyllobiini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from Turkey¹

Abstract

Five species of weevils in the tribe Phyllobiini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) [Phyllobius glaucus (Scopoli, 1763); Phyllobius virideaeris (Laicharting, 1781); Parascythropus mirandus Desbrochers, 1875; Oedecnemidius pictus (Steven, 1829); Oedecnemidius saltuarius (Heyden, 1888)] were studied to generate analyses of their relationships. Those interspecific relationships were inferred from morphological characters as well as 18S rDNA sequencing data. Phylogenetic trees based on sequencing data were built with Neighbor Joining (NJ), Maximum Likelihood (ML), and Maximum Parsimony (MP) algorithms; morphology-based trees were created using UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean). The trees have a similar topology.