Head capsule characters in the Hymenoptera and their phylogenetic implications

By

Vilhelmsen, Lars

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

130

Pages

343-361

Subjects

Hymenoptera, morphology, phylogeny, head anatomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.130.1438

 

Abstract

The head capsule of a taxon sample of three outgroup and 86 ingroup taxa is examined for characters of possible phylogenetic significance within Hymenoptera. 21 morphological characters are illustrated and scored, and their character evolution explored by mapping them onto a phylogeny recently produced from a large morphological data set. Many of the characters are informative and display unambiguous changes. Most of the character support demonstrated is supportive at the superfamily or family level. In contrast, only few characters corroborate deeper nodes in the phylogeny of Hymenoptera.