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Phylogeny and biogeography of the unique snakefly genus Alena Navás, 1916 (Raphidioptera: Raphidiidae)
| Title: | Phylogeny and biogeography of the unique snakefly genus Alena Navás, 1916 (Raphidioptera: Raphidiidae) |
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| Authors: | Martins, Caleb Califre, Aspöck, Horst, Aspöck, Ulrike, Contreras-Ramos, Atilano |
| Superior Title: | Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 80 39-58 |
| Publisher Information: | Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung |
| Publication Year: | 2022 |
| Collection: | Zenodo |
| Subject Terms: | Biota, Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Raphidioptera, Raphidiidae, Alena, Biodiversity, central Mexico, glacial refuges, morphology, western North America, Neuropterida |
| Description: | The genus Alena Navás, 1916, is considered the most distinct genus of Raphidiidae, because of the uncommon shape of its male genital sclerites and its geographic distribution restricted to the southwestern U.S.A. and western Mexico. Herein, we present a new species of the subgenus Aztekoraphidia U. Aspöck and H. Aspöck, 1970, – Alena (Aztekoraphidia) alanae sp. nov. Based on this discovery we present a detailed morphological study and the first morphological phylogeny of Alena. Our results recover this genus as monophyletic, including the subgenus Aztekoraphidia as sister to a clade composed by the other two monotypic subgenera, Alena s.s. Navás, 1916, and Mexicoraphidia U. Aspöck and H. Aspöck, 1970. We also provide a hypothesis about the biogeographic history of the group, which advocates that species of Alena are strongly associated with central Mexico and their ancestors were probably widely distributed through western North America in the past, of which only a few small groups survived in glacial refuges. |
| Document Type: | article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit; https://zenodo.org/record/6132940; https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260; oai:zenodo.org:6132940 |
| DOI: | 10.3897/asp.80.e77260 |
| Availability: | https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260 https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260.figure1 https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260.figure2 https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260.figure5 https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260.figure3 https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.80.e77260.figure4 https://zenodo.org/record/6132940 |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.5E2CAA5A |
| Database: | BASE |
| Description not available. |