Evansiclavelia; Maurilloides; Maurillus; parasitoid; taxonomy; trapdoor; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Ecology; Agronomy and Crop Science; Insect Science
Abstract :
[en] We treat the Australian spider wasp ‘Ctenocerini’, revising the systematics of Maurillus Smith, adding a new species Maurillus argenticapitis Pitts & Shimizu sp. nov. and describing two new monobasic genera Maurilloides Pitts & Shimizu gen. nov. based on Maurilloides nigrisoma Pitts & Shimizu sp. nov. and Evansiclavelia Pitts, Rodriguez & Shimizu gen. nov. based on Evansiclavelia poecilopteryx Pitts, Rodriguez & Shimizu sp. nov. We further discuss the phylogenetic position of Maurillus and the convergent evolution of the modification in head and pronotal structures occurring in the above three genera, as well as in pompilids from other subfamilies, that parasitise trapdoor spiders.
Disciplines :
Entomology & pest control
Author, co-author :
Shimizu, Akira ; Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Japan ; Research Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Inc., Setagaya-ku, Japan ; The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Pitts, James P; Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, United States
Rodriguez, Juanita; Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Acton, Australia
Yoshimura, Jin; Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Japan ; The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan ; Department of International Health and Medical Anthropology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan ; Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, United States ; Marine Biosystems Research Center, Chiba University, Kamogawa, Japan
Language :
English
Title :
Systematics and convergent evolution in three Australian genera of Pepsinae spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
NSF - National Science Foundation USU - Utah State University
Funding text :
We thank James Lumbers (ANIC) for collecting specimens of Evansiclavelia poecilopteryx, G. Broad (NHML) for the examination of specimens, and E. Gros (Chierry, France) for the information on his papers. This research was supported by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State University, and approved as journal paper number 9408. This work was supported, in part, by a US National Science Foundation grant DEB-1555905.
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