Taxonomic changes: disprove or accept them

Marcondes, Carlos Brisóla

doi:10.1016/j.pt.2007.04.011

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“…The most significant outcomes of this process were the near trebling of the number of total genera and the reduction of the number of species in genus Aedes from over 800 to just 12. These proposed changes have caused extensive debate about translating phylogenies into classifications [ 102 – 105 ].…”

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Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

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The tribe Aedini (Family Culicidae) contains approximately one-quarter of the known species of mosquitoes, including vectors of deadly or debilitating disease agents. This tribe contains the genus Aedes, which is one of the three most familiar genera of mosquitoes. During the past decade, Aedini has been the focus of a series of extensive morphology-based phylogenetic studies published by Reinert, Harbach, and Kitching (RH&K). Those authors created 74 new, elevated or resurrected genera from what had been the single genus Aedes, almost tripling the number of genera in the entire family Culicidae. The proposed classification is based on subjective assessments of the “number and nature of the characters that support the branches” subtending particular monophyletic groups in the results of cladistic analyses of a large set of morphological characters of representative species. To gauge the stability of RH&K’s generic groupings we reanalyzed their data with unweighted parsimony jackknife and maximum-parsimony analyses, with and without ordering 14 of the characters as in RH&K. We found that their phylogeny was largely weakly supported and their taxonomic rankings failed priority and other useful taxon-naming criteria. Consequently, we propose simplified aedine generic designations that 1) restore a classification system that is useful for the operational community; 2) enhance the ability of taxonomists to accurately place new species into genera; 3) maintain the progress toward a natural classification based on monophyletic groups of species; and 4) correct the current classification system that is subject to instability as new species are described and existing species more thoroughly defined. We do not challenge the phylogenetic hypotheses generated by the above-mentioned series of morphological studies. However, we reduce the ranks of the genera and subgenera of RH&K to subgenera or informal species groups, respectively, to preserve stability as new data become available.

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Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

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“…The division of Aedes into Stegomyia and other genera (12) has been accepted (13) . However, the more traditional and comprehensive Aedes defi nition, commonly used by public health workers, is utilized here; special abbreviations for genera and subgenera (14) are also utilized.…”

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Zika virus in Brazil and the danger of infestation by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes

Marcondes

Ximenes

2015

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.

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Zika virus, already widely distributed in Africa and Asia, was recently reported in two Northeastern Brazilian: State of Bahia and State of Rio Grande do Norte, and one Southeastern: State of São Paulo. This fi nding adds a potentially noxious virus to a list of several other viruses that are widely transmitted by Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus in Brazil. The pathology and epidemiology, including the distribution and vectors associated with Zika virus, are reviewed. This review is focused on viruses transmitted by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes, including dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, Mayaro, and yellow fever virus, to emphasize the risks of occurrence for these arboviruses in Brazil and neighboring countries. Other species of Aedes (Stegomyia) are discussed, emphasizing their involvement in arbovirus transmission and the possibility of adaptation to environments modifi ed by human activities and introduction in Brazil.

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“…longipalpis s.l. (Marcondes 2007), the vector for Leishmania (Leishmania) chagasi (Cunha and Chagas 1937) in the Americas (Lainson and Rangel 2003), blocks their metamorphosis in the second instar in addition to causing a considerable dose-dependent mortality rate (Andrade-Coelho et al 2006). Studies showed that A. indica and Melia azedarach L. fruit and leaves in natura signiÞcantly increased larval mortality in comparison to untreated insects, when offered as food.…”

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Effects of Azadirachtin on the Biology ofLutzomyia longipalpis(Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) Adult Female, the Main Vector of American Visceral Leishmaniasis

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The effects of azadirachtin A added to the sucrose diet of the adult females on the mortality, oviposition, and hatching of the sand fly vector of American visceral leishmaniasis Lutzomyia longipalpis (Lutz & Neiva, 1912) were investigated. Concentrations of 0.1, 1.0, and 10.0 microg/mg of azadirachtin significantly increased insect mortality in comparison with control insects. The same dose also significantly reduced oviposition but not hatching. After a long development period, significantly fewer adult insects were obtained from eggs hatching by azadirachtin-treated females in a dose-response manner. These results indicate that azadirachtin is a potent sterilizer that could be used against the development of Lu. longipalpis populations and as a tool for studying physiological and biochemical processes in phlebotomine species.

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Taxonomic changes: disprove or accept them

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

Making Mosquito Taxonomy Useful: A Stable Classification of Tribe Aedini that Balances Utility with Current Knowledge of Evolutionary Relationships

Zika virus in Brazil and the danger of infestation by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes

Effects of Azadirachtin on the Biology ofLutzomyia longipalpis(Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) Adult Female, the Main Vector of American Visceral Leishmaniasis

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