Revision of Zorion Pascoe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), an endemic genus of New Zealand

Schnitzler, Franz-Rudolf; Wang, Qiao

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“…Subsequently, six of these genera were dropped, and five others were reinstated (Kuschel, 1990;Leschen et al, 2003). The majority of the New Zealand taxa are wingless, which is interesting given they probably originated from Melanesia (Gressitt, 1956;Schnitzler & Wang, 2005). Several Australian lamiine species are also wingless (across eight genera, four of which are endemic), though none of the Australian Cerambycinae have lost their wings ( Ślipiński & Escalona, 2013( Ślipiński & Escalona, , 2016.…”

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The first phylogeny of Australasian Lamiinae longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) reveals poor tribal classification and a complex biogeographic history

Ashman

Shin

Zwick

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Systematic Entomology

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We used phylogenomic data and information from the beetle fossil record to reconstruct the phylogeny and historical biogeography of Australasian longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) in the subfamily Lamiinae. We further focused our study on the distribution of proposed diagnostic morphological characters in Lamiinae, and on the phylogeny of Rhytiphora Audinet-Serville, Australia's most species-rich genus of longhorn beetles. Lamiinae was monophyletic, but the majority of tribes were polyor paraphyletic. Within Lamiinae, we recovered four main clades, including one clade mostly comprised of Australian endemic genera of probable Gondwanan origin. This clade also contained taxa that dispersed from Australia to New Zealand and experienced multiple independent instances of wing loss. Another of the four clades contained Australian genera that colonized the region from Asia, including Rhytiphora. The defining feature of Rhytiphora, the setose 'sex patches' on the male abdomen, was shared with many other Asian lamiine genera recovered in the same clade. Our results shed new light on the geographic and temporal origins of Australian Lamiinae, revealing an unexpected mixture of both ancient Gondwanan and recent Asian origins. Moreover, we confirmed rampant nonmonophyly at the tribal level among the Australasian genera of Lamiinae. Based on our results, we move 17 genera into Lamiinae incertae sedis and six genera into the tribe Ancitini Aurivillius. We also reinstate the tribe Niphonini Pascoe for part of the Asian-Australian Pteropliini Thomson and synonymize Achriotypa Pascoe with Rhytiphora.

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The first phylogeny of Australasian Lamiinae longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) reveals poor tribal classification and a complex biogeographic history

Ashman

Shin

Zwick

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Systematic Entomology

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A checklist of New Zealand Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera), excluding Lamiinae

Sopow

Bain

2017

New Zealand Entomologist

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Revision of the Mecodema curvidens species group (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini)

Seldon

Leschen²

2011

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The flightless carabid genus Mecodema Blanchard 1843 is restricted to New Zealand and presently contains 64 species. In this study, we examine species in the newly constituted curvidens group (sulcatum and curvidens are synonymised), reducing the Mecodema species groups to seven. They share two synapomorphies (rounded apical lobe of the aedeagus and lack of microsculpture on the vertex of the head) and are distributed in Northland, south along the east coast of the North Island and the northeast portion of the South Island. Adult specimens of the curvidens and sulcatum groups, along with exemplars of the other Mecodema groups (alternans, costellum, ducale, infimate, laterale and spiniferum), and an outgroup Oregus Putzeys 1868 were examined for cladistic analysis using a data matrix composed of a 63 characters and 21 terminal taxa. The analysis resulted in 18 most parsimonious trees. The following new species in the curvidens group are described: M. aoteanoho sp. n., M. haunoho sp. n., M. manaia sp. n., M. parataiko sp. n., M. ponaiti sp. n., and M. tenaki sp. n. Mecodema exitiosus was wrongly sysnonymised under M. occiputale and we propose a new synonymy M. curvidens (=M. exitiosus). We consider the parts of the male genitalia in detail with special attention to the structures of apical plate once everted from the endophallus.

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Revision of Zorion Pascoe (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), an endemic genus of New Zealand

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The first phylogeny of Australasian Lamiinae longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) reveals poor tribal classification and a complex biogeographic history

The first phylogeny of Australasian Lamiinae longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) reveals poor tribal classification and a complex biogeographic history

A checklist of New Zealand Cerambycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera), excluding Lamiinae

Revision of the Mecodema curvidens species group (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini)

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