Taxonomic revision of the Tuberculatus quercicola group (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Drepanosiphinae), myrmecophilous aphids associated with Quercus species, based on morphometric and molecular phylogenetic studies
Taxonomic revision of the Tuberculatus quercicola group (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Drepanosiphinae), myrmecophilous aphids associated with Quercus species, based on morphometric and molecular phylogenetic studies
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DOI:
10.1111/ens.12111
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发表时间:
2015-01-01
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0.9
通讯作者:
Akimoto,Shin-ichi
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作者:
Watanabe,Tomoko;Yao,Izumi;Akimoto,Shin-ichi
In this paper, we revised the taxonomy of theTuberculatus quercicolagroup, myrmecophilous drepanosiphine aphids that are associated withQuercus dentataandQ. crispulain Japan, based on morphometry and molecular phylogeny. This species group has been recognized asT. quercicolawith some junior synonyms. Morphometric analysis of 11 morphological characters divided the group into three clusters: (i) theQ. crispula‐associated population; (ii) the central Hokkaido group of theQ. dentata‐associated population; and (iii) the eastern Hokkaido group of theQ. dentata‐associated population. Most parsimony and maximum likelihood analyses of the mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit ICOIgene indicated that samples of theT. quercicolagroup are separated, with high bootstrap supports, into two monophyletic groups that are associated with eitherQ. dentataorQ. crispula. However, no genetic differentiation was detected between the central Hokkaido group and the eastern Hokkaido group of theQ. dentata‐associated population. These results led us to conclude that populations associated withQ. dentataare genetically and morphologically distinct from those associated withQ. crispula, and thus they are in a full specific status. On the other hand, we treated the two local groups of theQ. dentata‐associated population as local races based on morphology. We formally redescribed theQ. crispula‐associated andQ. dentata‐associated populations under the namesT. quercicolaandT. macrotuberculatusstat. rev., respectively.