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Citation title: "Phylogeny of Heteronychia: the largest lineage of Sarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)".

Study name: "Phylogeny of Heteronychia: the largest lineage of Sarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)".

This study is part of submission 14253 (Status: Published).

Citation

Whitmore D., Pape T., & Cerretti P. 2013. Phylogeny of Heteronychia: the largest lineage of Sarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 169(3): 604-639.

Authors

• Whitmore D.
• Pape T.
• Cerretti P.

Abstract

Sarcophaga Meigen is one of the megadiverse genera of true flies, with approximately 850 valid species worldwide. The genus is divided into about 160 subgenera, the validity of a vast majority of which has never been verified using cladistic methods. This paper deals with the mainly Palaearctic subgenus Heteronychia Brauer & Bergenstamm, which comprises 89 species and is thus the largest subunit of Sarcophaga. We performed a cladistic analysis of the group based exclusively on male morphological characters. Parsimony analyses were run on a matrix of 84 characters for 88 species. Species of the subgenera Discachaeta Enderlein and Notoecus Stein were also included in the matrix. A further analysis was carried out using a subset of characters from the terminalia alone (70 characters). The results show that the clade formed by Heteronychia, Discachaeta, and Notoecus is monophyletic, with Discachaeta emerging as polyphyletic whereas Sarcophaga (Notoecus) longestylata Strobl is nested within the Sarcophaga filia-group. Character states supporting Heteronychia and the few well-supported species-groups are discussed in detail. The following synonymies are proposed: Discachaeta = Heteronychia (syn. nov.) and Notoecus = Heteronychia (syn. nov.). The paper also includes a historical background of the taxon in relation to the classfication of the genus Sarcophaga over the past two centuries, as well as a terminological review of the male terminalia, particularly of the distiphallus.

Keywords

character analysis ? cladistics ? flesh flies ? male terminalia ? morphology ? Palaearctic ? terminology

External links

• DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12070

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  	 author = {Daniel  Whitmore and Thomas  Pape and Pierfilippo  Cerretti},
  	 title = {Phylogeny of Heteronychia: the largest lineage of Sarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)},
  	 year = {2013},
  	 keywords = {character analysis ? cladistics ? flesh flies ? male terminalia ? morphology ? Palaearctic ? terminology},
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  	 journal = {Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society},
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  analysis of the group based exclusively on male morphological characters. Parsimony analyses were run on a matrix of 84 characters for 88 species. Species of the subgenera Discachaeta Enderlein and Notoecus Stein were also included in the matrix. A further analysis was carried out using a subset of characters from the terminalia alone (70 characters). The results show that the clade formed by Heteronychia, Discachaeta, and Notoecus is
  monophyletic, with Discachaeta emerging as polyphyletic whereas Sarcophaga (Notoecus) longestylata Strobl is nested within the Sarcophaga filia-group. Character states supporting Heteronychia and the few well-supported species-groups are discussed in detail. The following synonymies are proposed: Discachaeta = Heteronychia (syn.
  nov.) and Notoecus = Heteronychia (syn. nov.). The paper also includes a historical background of the taxon in relation to the classfication of the genus Sarcophaga over the past two centuries, as well as a terminological review of the male  terminalia, particularly of the distiphallus.}
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  analysis of the group based exclusively on male morphological characters. Parsimony analyses were run on a matrix of 84 characters for 88 species. Species of the subgenera Discachaeta Enderlein and Notoecus Stein were also included in the matrix. A further analysis was carried out using a subset of characters from the terminalia alone (70 characters). The results show that the clade formed by Heteronychia, Discachaeta, and Notoecus is
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  nov.) and Notoecus = Heteronychia (syn. nov.). The paper also includes a historical background of the taxon in relation to the classfication of the genus Sarcophaga over the past two centuries, as well as a terminological review of the male  terminalia, particularly of the distiphallus.
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