Phylogenetic Placement of the Plesioclytini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae)
Laura N. Sutherland,
Kyle E. Schnepp,
Gareth S. Powell,
Seth M. Bybee
Affiliations
Laura N. Sutherland
Department of Entomology, Purdue University, 901 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
Kyle E. Schnepp
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA
Gareth S. Powell
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 4102 LSB, Provo, UT 84604, USA
Seth M. Bybee
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 4102 LSB, Provo, UT 84604, USA
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.
