Inferred Phylogeny of Carabid Tribes with Focal Studies on Taxa of Harpalinae: a Synthesis of Morphological and Molecular Data, and a New Classification

该项目将重建步甲（鞘翅目：步甲科），小型食肉动物的优势群体之一的繁殖。 重点将放在这个大家庭的部落之间的关系，集中在最大的亚科，Harpalinae，一个自白垩纪以来已经辐射到25，000多个物种的群体内的关系。 在Harpalinae，基础pterostichite谱系将被详细检查，将丰富lebiomorphs，这已经上升到植被和辐射到雨林树冠。 一个矩阵的形态特征，从成人和幼虫的200多个类群将构建，借鉴了丰富的出版帐户，新的采样类群和新的字符系统。 28S rDNA和无翅基因的分子序列数据将收集这些相同的类群，扩大现有的信息，这些基因通过增加类群的关键了解步甲的进化一般和harpaline辐射，特别是。 该项目不仅将产生步甲进化历史的知识，而且将首次基于明确、全面的系统发育分析对该家族进行分类。

This project will reconstruct the phylogeny of carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), one of the dominant groups of small predators. The focus will be on relationships of the tribes of this large family, with a concentration on the relationships within the largest subfamily, the Harpalinae, a group which has radiated into over 25,000 species since the Cretaceous. Within the Harpalinae, the basal pterostichite lineages will be examined in detail, as will the abundant lebiomorphs, which have ascended vegetation and radiated into the rainforest canopy. A matrix of morphological characters from both adults and larvae of over 200 taxa will be constructed that draws on plentiful published accounts, newly sampled taxa and novel character systems. Molecular sequence data for 28S rDNA and the wingless gene will be gathered for these same taxa, expanding existing information about these genes by adding taxa critical to understanding carabid evolution in general and harpaline radiation in particular. The project will yield not only knowledge of the evolutionary history of carabids, but a classification of the family based for the first time on an explicit, and comprehensive, phylogenetic analysis.