A cladistic analysis of the bee tribe allodapini (hymenoptera: apidae: xylocopinae)

Issue Date

4-1998

Abstract

The allodapine bees provide a model system to study the evolution of social behaviour and parasitism because they show a range of social behaviour from solitary to primitively eusocial. They also include several socially parasitic species hypothesised to evolve from perspective allows identification of lineage-specific pathways for various traits, but this requires a robust phylogeny. A cladistic analysis of the genera of the tribe Allodapini is done and contrasted with the previous phylogenetic hypothesis. There are fifteen genera, divided into four major groups. The phylogenetic system proposed is: the Halterapis group (Halterapis + Compsomelissa) is the sister group of the fourteen other allodapine genera; the Exoneira group (Macrogalea + (Exoneuridia + (Exoneurella + (Brevineura + (Exoneura + Inquilina) is the sister group of the Allodapula group )Allodape + (Braunsapis + Effractapis). Nasutapis is synonymized under the genus Braunsapis. Three apparent paraphyletic genera are provisionally maintained, namely: Exoneura, Allodapula and Braunsapis until studies on species-phylogeny are available for re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of these taxa.

Source or Periodical Title

The Philippine Entomologist

ISSN

0048-3753

Volume

12

Issue

1

Page

55-84

Document Type

Article

Physical Description

illustrations; tables; figures

Language

English

En – AGROVOC descriptors

APIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TAXONOMY; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION

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