TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogeny of the rove beetle tribe Gymnusini sensu n. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
T2 - implications for the early branching events of the subfamily
AU - Yamamoto, ShÛhei
AU - Maruyama, Munetoshi
N1 - Funding Information:
We especially thank Mr Yui Takahashi (University of Tsukuba) for his preparations of the specimens used in this study. We also deeply thank Mr Takashi Kushibiki (Shimadzu Corp.) and Dr Shûhei Nomura (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan) for micro-CT imaging. Special thanks are also dedicated to Drs Crystal Maier and Margaret K. Thayer (FMNH) for providing us with the specimen numbers. SY would like to thank Dr Toshiya Hirowatari (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) for reading the early draft. Finally, we would like to express our deep gratitude to Dr Dave J. Clarke (University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.) for critical reading of the revised draft. This study was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (14J02669) to SY from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. This work is a contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Ser. 7, No. 59).
Funding Information:
We especially thank Mr Yui Takahashi (University of Tsukuba) for his preparations of the specimens used in this study. We also deeply thank Mr Takashi Kushibiki (Shimadzu Corp.) and Dr Sh?hei Nomura (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan) for micro-CT imaging. Special thanks are also dedicated to Drs Crystal Maier and Margaret K. Thayer (FMNH) for providing us with the specimen numbers. SY would like to thank Dr Toshiya Hirowatari (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan) for reading the early draft. Finally, we would like to express our deep gratitude to Dr Dave J. Clarke (University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.) for critical reading of the revised draft. This study was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (14J02669) to SY from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan. This work is a contribution from the Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Ser. 7, No. 59). The authors declare there are no competing financial interests.
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© 2017 The Royal Entomological Society
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - The rove beetle subfamily Aleocharinae is the largest subfamily of animals known in terms of species richness. Two small aleocharine tribes, Gymnusini and Deinopsini, are believed to be a monophyletic clade, sister to the rest of the Aleocharinae. Although the phylogenetic relationships of the extant lineages have been well investigated, the monophyly of Gymnusini has been questioned due to a series of previous studies and the recent discovery of the aleocharine †Cretodeinopsis Cai & Huang (Deinopsini) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Using an additional specimen of †Cretodeinopsis and well-preserved specimens of †Electrogymnusa Wolf-Schwenninger from Eocene Baltic amber, we present here two types of morphology-based phylogenetic analyses, employing all extant/extinct genera of Gymnusini and Deinopsini for the first time. The maximum parsimony and Bayesian analyses recovered a monophyletic clade of the two tribes combined, but each analysis suggested nonmonophyly of Gymnusini. In agreement with the results of the present study, we synonymize Deinopsini syn.n. under Gymnusini sensu n., by priority. This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F09EB444-C6CA-4525-A986-3CFC826F5877.
AB - The rove beetle subfamily Aleocharinae is the largest subfamily of animals known in terms of species richness. Two small aleocharine tribes, Gymnusini and Deinopsini, are believed to be a monophyletic clade, sister to the rest of the Aleocharinae. Although the phylogenetic relationships of the extant lineages have been well investigated, the monophyly of Gymnusini has been questioned due to a series of previous studies and the recent discovery of the aleocharine †Cretodeinopsis Cai & Huang (Deinopsini) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Using an additional specimen of †Cretodeinopsis and well-preserved specimens of †Electrogymnusa Wolf-Schwenninger from Eocene Baltic amber, we present here two types of morphology-based phylogenetic analyses, employing all extant/extinct genera of Gymnusini and Deinopsini for the first time. The maximum parsimony and Bayesian analyses recovered a monophyletic clade of the two tribes combined, but each analysis suggested nonmonophyly of Gymnusini. In agreement with the results of the present study, we synonymize Deinopsini syn.n. under Gymnusini sensu n., by priority. This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F09EB444-C6CA-4525-A986-3CFC826F5877.
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U2 - 10.1111/syen.12267
DO - 10.1111/syen.12267
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029397154
SN - 0307-6970
VL - 43
SP - 183
EP - 199
JO - Systematic Entomology
JF - Systematic Entomology
IS - 1
ER -