A revision of Evaniscus (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) using ontology-based semantic phenotype annotation

By

Mullins, Patricia
Kawada, Ricardo
Balhoff, James
Deans, Andrew R.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2012

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

223

Pages

1-38

Subjects

Anatomy , biodiversity informatics , data accessibility , Morphology , New World , objectification of morphological descriptions , OWL , phenotype , Phylogeny , semantic species description

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.223.3572

 

Abstract

The Neotropical evaniid genus Evaniscus Szépligeti currently includes six species. Two new species are described, Evaniscus lansdownei Mullins, sp. n. from Colombia and Brazil and E. rafaeli Kawada, sp. n. from Brazil. Evaniscus sulcigenis Roman, syn. n., is synonymized under E. rufithorax Enderlein. An identification key to species of Evaniscus is provided. Thirty-five parsimony informative morphological characters are analyzed for six ingroup and four outgroup taxa. A topology resulting in a monophyletic Evaniscus is presented with E. tibialis and E. rafaeli as sister to the remaining Evaniscus species. The Hymenoptera Anatomy Ontology and other relevant biomedical ontologies are employed to create semantic phenotype statements in Entity-Quality (EQ) format for species descriptions. This approach is an early effort to formalize species descriptions and to make descriptive data available to other domains.