Overview

To date only one quantitative species level phylogeny (Loiacono and Margaria 2000) has been published for the diapriidae. The phylogeny presented below is the first pass at a worlwide-phylogeny of Entomacis species. Further updates including illustrated character descriptions will ultimately be provided here, pending on publication of a completely illustrated, reworked descriptive morphology for species of Entomacis.

Phylogeny

Figure 1 is one of two trees recovered from the parsimony analysis of 41 taxa and 56 morphological characters. Characters were treated as unordered and unwieghted. Multiple outgroups (Doddius, Belyta, Pantolytomyia, M4) were used to polarize the characters. Greyed boxes cover species names of taxa described in the soon to be submitted Revision of North American Entomacis . Only unambiguous character state changes are mapped. A "*" indicates the presence (females) of tyloids on A8 and A10, a potential synapomorphy for the genus. Horizontal lines and associated letters indicate clades of interest. The "?" indicates atypical species. The dashed branch marks the division between two general setal phenotypes. All non-italicized names are manuscript names.a neo - Neotropical; nea - Nearctic; nz - New Zealand, aus - Australia, ori - Oriental; eth - Ethiopian.

Figures

Fig. 1. Preliminary phylogeny of worldwide species of Entomacis.

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