Phylogenetic Placement of the Plesioclytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)

Abstract

The tribe Plesioclytini was recently erected for a single genus of cerambycine longhorn beetle. The group was diagnosed from a proposed sister lineage, the diverse Clytini; however, a formal phylogenetic analysis was not performed due to limitations in data availability. Here, we present a phylogenetic reconstruction from five loci, that Plesioclytini is not sister to Clytini, but is instead only distantly related. Subsequent morphological investigations provide additional support for this placement.

Keywords

• longhorn beetles
• cerambycine
• classification