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REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE ENTOMOLOGIA
Volume 52, Issue 4, Pages 510-549Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA ENTOMOLOGIA
DOI: 10.1590/S0085-56262008000400004
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Systematics; new classification; social wasps
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Phylogeny of wasps of the genus Mischocyttarus do Saussure (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Polistinae). A phylogenetic analysis is presented of subgenera and species-groups of Mischocyttarus de Saussure, the largest genus of social wasps. The analysis is based on 62 morphological and nest architecture characters, code(] for 71 terminals representing much of the taxonomic diversity within the genus, plus three outgroup terminals representing other polistine tribes. The main conclusions about phylogenetic relationships within the genus are based on parsimony analysis under implied weights. Monophyly of Mischocyttarus is confirmed as well as that of most of the previously recognized subgenera: Mischocyttarus s. str., Clypeopolyhia, Monogynoecus, Scytokeraia, Phi, Kappa, Megacanthopus and Omega sensu Richards (1978). Haplometrobius as conceived by Richards (1978) is not it monophyletic taxon, but some of its species-groups are monophyletic. The groups of M. artifex and M. cerberus are raised to subgenus level. and a new concept of Haplometrobius restricts it to the group of M. iheringi (the type species of this subgenus) in the sense of this work. The concept of subgenus Omega is widened to include the species-groups of M. surinamensis and M. prominulus. Besides the new subgeneric classification presented. limits and diagnoses of all species-groups of the subgenera Phi and Haplometrobius sensu Richards (1978) are discussed, and a new key for all subgenera and species-groups of Mischocyttarus is also presented.
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