Wing morphometric analysis of Australian Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Brown, KR; Shipp, E.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.1978.tb00114.x

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“…Finally, it must be stressed that in Lopes (1959Lopes ( , 1967Lopes ( , 1990, Rohdendorf (1963), Zumpt (1972, Brown & Shipp (1978), Dear (1980), Cantrell (1981, Beaver (1986), Blackith (1990), Nandi (1990), Lehrer (1993), Aspoas (1994), Verves (2001), Shinonaga (2001), and Dawah & Abdullah (2005) the name 'Heteronychia' is used for species of Sarcophaga not currently ascribed to that subgenus.…”

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Phylogeny ofHeteronychia: the largest lineage ofSarcophaga(Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

2013

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Sarcophaga Meigen is one of the megadiverse genera of true flies, with approximately 850 valid species worldwide. The genus is divided into about 160 subgenera, the validity of a vast majority of which has never been verified using cladistic methods. This paper deals with the mainly Palaearctic subgenus Heteronychia Brauer & Bergenstamm, which comprises 89 species and is thus the largest subunit of Sarcophaga. We performed a cladistic analysis of the group based exclusively on male morphological characters. Parsimony analyses were run on a matrix of 84 characters for 88 species. Species of the subgenera Discachaeta Enderlein and Notoecus Stein were also included in the matrix. A further analysis was carried out using a subset of characters from the terminalia alone (70 characters). The results show that the clade formed by Heteronychia, Discachaeta, and Notoecus is monophyletic, with Discachaeta emerging as polyphyletic whereas Sarcophaga (Notoecus) longestylata Strobl is nested within the Sarcophaga filia‐group. Character states supporting Heteronychia and the few well‐supported species‐groups are discussed in detail. The following synonymies are proposed: Discachaeta = Heteronychia (syn. nov.) and Notoecus = Heteronychia (syn. nov.). The paper also includes a historical background of the taxon in relation to the classification of the genus Sarcophaga over the past two centuries, as well as a terminological review of the male terminalia, particularly of the distiphallus. © 2013 The Linnean Society of London

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Phylogeny ofHeteronychia: the largest lineage ofSarcophaga(Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

2013

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“…Complexes of sibling species show high morphological similarity among species. However, when morphometric approaches are used in these taxa some differences in morphology that allow discrimination among species can be found (Brown and Shipp 1978; Yu et al. 1992; Tidon‐Sklorz and Sene 1995; Adams and Funk 1996; Moreteau et al.…”

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Divergence in wing morphology among sibling species of the Drosophila buzzatii cluster

Moraes

Spressola

Prado

et al. 2004

J Zoological System

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The Drosophila buzzatii species cluster consists of the sibling species D. buzzatii, D. koepferae, D. serido, D. borborema, D. seriema, D. antonietae and D. gouveai, all of which breed exclusively in decaying cactus tissue and, except for D. buzzatii (a colonizing subcosmopolitan species), are endemic to South America. Using a morphometric approach and multivariate analysis of 17 wing parameters, we investigated the degree of divergence in wing morphology among the sibling species of this cluster. Significant differences were obtained among the species and discriminant analysis showed that wing morphology was sufficiently different to allow the correct classification of 98.6% of the 70 individuals analysed. The phenetic relationships among the species inferred from UPGMA cluster analysis based on squared Mahalanobis distances (D 2 ) were generally compatible with previously published phylogenetic relationships. These results suggest that wing morphology within D. buzzatii cluster is of phylogenetic importance.

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“…Morphometric analysis of insect wings has been used to distinguish the relationship between closely related taxa (Brown & Shipp, 1977, 1978Brown, 1979;Rohlf & Archie, 1984;Byers, 1989;Yu et al, 1992;Kukalova-Peck & Peck, 1993;Ansorge, 1994;Diniz-Filho & Malaspina, 1995). Further, morphometric wing analysis can differentiate among populations within a species.…”

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Geographic variation of wing morphology in three Eurasian populations of the fruit fly, Drosophila lummei

Haas

Tolley

1998

Journal of Zoology

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Differences in wing morphology are described for three Eurasian populations of Drosophila lummei. A truss network of wing characters was used to quantify wing size and shape for 149 individuals from Japan, Sweden and Russia. Sexual dimorphism in wing size and shape was not substantial, so the sexes were pooled and multivariate analyses conducted. Both principal components analysis and discriminant analysis of wing morphology revealed signi®cant differences among all geographic groups. These differences indicate that morphometric analysis of wing characters can reliably discriminate between geographic groups and accurately classify individuals of the three Drosophila lummei populations. Principal components analysis also revealed that characters occurring in the same section of the wing formed correlated suites which corresponded to morphologically and functionally distinct areas of the wing. This study is unique because it detects subtle morphological differences within a single species of fruit¯y across an intercontinental distribution.The results corroborate genetic studies in which geographic variation was found for inversion polymorphisms among spatially separated populations of Drosophila lummei.

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Wing morphometric analysis of Australian Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Cited by 15 publications

References 16 publications

Phylogeny ofHeteronychia: the largest lineage ofSarcophaga(Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Phylogeny ofHeteronychia: the largest lineage ofSarcophaga(Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

Divergence in wing morphology among sibling species of the Drosophila buzzatii cluster

Geographic variation of wing morphology in three Eurasian populations of the fruit fly, Drosophila lummei

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