TY - JOUR
T1 - Phylogenomics of endemic Australian Ulopinae (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cicadellidae)
AU - Evangelista, Olivia
AU - Tatarnic, Nikolai
AU - Bayless, Keith
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded through the Bush Blitz species discovery program (taxonomy grant DNP-BCK-2021-007) that is part of the National Parks Australia Division. The authors thank the following museum staff for facilitating access to relevant holdings, especially primary types: Derek Smith and Russel Cox (Australian Museum); Ben Parslow (South Australian Museum); Genefor Walker-Smith and Catriona McPhee (Victoria Museum); Susan Wright, Karin Koch and Geoff Thompson (Queensland Museum). We are indebted to our colleagues at the Australian Biological Resources Study, National Parks Australia and CSIRO who helped manage the contract and funds (Helen Cross, Jo Harding, Erika Cleaver and Suzanne Blankley).
Funding Information:
This study was funded through the Bush Blitz species discovery program (taxonomy grant DNP-BCK-2021-007) that is part of the National Parks Australia Division. Acknowledgements
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.
PY - 2024/2/13
Y1 - 2024/2/13
N2 - Ulopinae is a distinctive subfamily of leafhoppers that is widely distributed across the Afrotropical, Palearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian regions. The ulopine fauna of Australia is entirely endemic and includes two tribes of striking appearance, the Ulopini and Cephalelini. Knowledge of these groups is fragmentary and in many instances, no information is available beyond original descriptions. We assess the monophyly, phylogenetic placement and species-level diversity of the Ulopini genus Austrolopa. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequence data from target nuclear loci (18S, 28S, H2A and H3) and mitochondrial genomes (15 genes) for 23 membracoid taxa yielded congruent topologies. Our results provide strong evidence for the monophyly of Ulopinae and a clade consisting of Ulopini + Cephalelini. However, a non-monophyletic Cephalelini arises from within a polyphyletic Ulopini. Austrolopa was strongly recovered as monophyletic in all analyses, a result also supported by morphological features. The genus currently includes six species, three of which are described based on morphological and molecular data: Austrolopa botanica, sp. nov., Austrolopa rotunda, sp. nov. and Austrolopa sublima, sp. nov. A lectotype designation is provided for Austrolopa kingensis Evans, 1937, sp. reval. Our findings illustrate that the Australian Ulopinae is far more diverse than currently circumscribed and several species of Austrolopa are yet to be recognised. ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1480285B-8F61-4659-A929-2B1EF3168868
AB - Ulopinae is a distinctive subfamily of leafhoppers that is widely distributed across the Afrotropical, Palearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian regions. The ulopine fauna of Australia is entirely endemic and includes two tribes of striking appearance, the Ulopini and Cephalelini. Knowledge of these groups is fragmentary and in many instances, no information is available beyond original descriptions. We assess the monophyly, phylogenetic placement and species-level diversity of the Ulopini genus Austrolopa. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequence data from target nuclear loci (18S, 28S, H2A and H3) and mitochondrial genomes (15 genes) for 23 membracoid taxa yielded congruent topologies. Our results provide strong evidence for the monophyly of Ulopinae and a clade consisting of Ulopini + Cephalelini. However, a non-monophyletic Cephalelini arises from within a polyphyletic Ulopini. Austrolopa was strongly recovered as monophyletic in all analyses, a result also supported by morphological features. The genus currently includes six species, three of which are described based on morphological and molecular data: Austrolopa botanica, sp. nov., Austrolopa rotunda, sp. nov. and Austrolopa sublima, sp. nov. A lectotype designation is provided for Austrolopa kingensis Evans, 1937, sp. reval. Our findings illustrate that the Australian Ulopinae is far more diverse than currently circumscribed and several species of Austrolopa are yet to be recognised. ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1480285B-8F61-4659-A929-2B1EF3168868
KW - Austrolopa
KW - Bush Blitz
KW - bush fires
KW - leafhoppers
KW - Membracoide
KW - narrow-range endemics
KW - species discovery
KW - Ulopini
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85186558536&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1071/IS23035
DO - 10.1071/IS23035
M3 - Article
C2 - 38744494
AN - SCOPUS:85186558536
SN - 1445-5226
VL - 38
JO - Invertebrate Systematics
JF - Invertebrate Systematics
IS - 2
M1 - IS23035
ER -