Experience of phylogenetic reconstruction of the weevil subfamily Lixinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) using molecular-genetic analysis

Abstract

Traditional division of the subfamily Lixinae into two or three tribes by Ter-Minassian and Alonso-Zarasaga and Lyal is not supported after moleculargenetic study using Ef-1a (elongation factor 1-alpha) of nuclear DNA. It is established that the traditional system of Lixinae is actually system of taxa of life forms with grouping of taxa by place localization of larval stage. The phylogenetic tree obtained on the basis of differences in DNA sequence analysis of Ef-1a gene by the methods of minimum evolution and maximum likelihood fully reflects the natural distribution of taxa by trophic preferences with clasters including taxa of different traditional tribes of Lixinae.

Keywords

• Coleoptera
• Curculionidae
• Lixinae
• reconstruction of phylogeny
• molecular-genetic analysis