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Issue: Vol. 2743 No. 1: 18 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2743.1.5
Page range: 56–62
Abstract views: 43
PDF downloaded: 1

Phylogeny of Pnyxiopalpus Vilkamaa & Hippa, with the description of P. persimplex sp. n. (Diptera, Sciaridae)

Zoological Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 17, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O. Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
Diptera Sciaridae Pnyxiopalpus persimplex new species phylogeny Oriental region

Abstract

Phylogeny of the Oriental genus Pnyxiopalpus Vilkamaa & Hippa, 1999 was re-studied in the light of the recently described, putatively related genus Vulagisciara Evenhuis, 2007, from Fiji, and a new species of Pnyxiopalpus, P. persimplex sp. n. from Selangor, Malaysia. Characters of these taxa were added to a previously published data matrix . The parsimony analysis yields two most parsimonious cladograms. In the strict concensus cladogram, Vulagisciara appears as the sister group of a monophyletic Pnyxiopalpus. Pnyxiopalpus persimplex sp. n. is described. The new species shares the basic structure of Pnyxiopalpus, but lacks some of the unique morphological modifications present in congeneric species. P. persimplex appears as the sister species to P. simplex, these two species together appearing as the sister group to all other Pnyxiopalpus.

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