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SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 626-636Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12019
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- Commonwealth Environmental Research Facilities 'Taxonomic Research Information Network' emerging priorities program, an OCE postdoctoral fellowship from CSIRO
- TIGER: Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Research [NSF: DEB-0542864]
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We provide the first molecular phylogeny of the clerid lineage (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Thanerocleridae) within the superfamily Cleroidea to examine the two most recently proposed hypotheses of higher level classification. Phylogenetic relationships of checkered beetles were inferred from approximately approximate to 5000nt of both nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA (28S, 16S and 12S) and the mitochondrial protein-coding gene COI. A worldwide sample of approximate to 70 genera representing almost a quarter of generic diversity of the clerid lineage was included and phylogenies were reconstructed using Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood approaches. Results support the monophyly of many proposed subfamilies but were not entirely congruent with either current classification system. The subfamilial relationships within the Cleridae are resolved with support for three main lineages. Tillinae are supported as the sister group to all other subfamilies within the Cleridae, whereas Thaneroclerinae, Korynetinae and a new subfamily formally described here, Epiclininae subf.n., form a sister group to Clerinae+Hydnocerinae.
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