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A molecular phylogeny for the pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012: 3:20 PM
301 C, Floor Three (Knoxville Convention Center)
Jerome C. Regier , Center for Biosystems Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Charles Mitter , Lepidoptera Phylogeny Group, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
M. Alma Solis , USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), Washington, DC
James E. Hayden , Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS), Gainesville, FL
Bernard Landry , Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Geneva, Switzerland
Matthias Nuss , Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany
Thomas Simonsen , Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London, London, England
Shen-horn Yen , National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of Biological Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Andreas Zwick , Entomology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, BW, Germany
Michael C. Cummings , Lepidoptera Phylogeny Group, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
We present the first detailed molecular estimate of relationships across the subfamilies of Pyraloidea, and assess its concordance with previous morphology-based hypotheses. Maximum likelihood analyses yield trees that differ little among data sets and character treatments and are strongly supported at all levels of divergence. Subfamily relationships within Pyralidae, all very strongly supported, differ only slightly from a previous morphological analysis, and can be summarized as Galleriinae + Chrysauginae (Phycitinae (Pyralinae + Epipaschiinae)). In Crambidae the molecular phylogeny is also strongly supported, but conflicts with most previous hypotheses. Among the newly-proposed groupings is a Òwet-habitat cladeÓ comprising Acentropinae + Schoenobiinae + Midilinae, and a provisional Òmustard oil cladeÓ containing Glaphyriinae, Evergestinae and Noordinae.
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