Tessaratomidae Stal 1864
Creators: name: Grazia, Jocelia
name: Schuh, Randall T.
name: Wheeler, Ward C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tessaratomidae

description: <i>TESSARATOMIDAE Stål</i> <i>Historical</i>: Sinclair (1989), in a generic revision and cladistic analysis of the exclusively Southern Hemisphere taxon Tessaratomidae, concluded that this group is polyphyletic. He raised the Oncomerinae to family status. The Tessaratomidae under Sinclair̕s (1989) vision included two subfamilies, Tessaratominae and Natalicolinae, the latter with two tribes, Natalicolini and Prionogastrini, and the latter of those comprising two subtribes, Prionogastraria and Sepinaria. More recently, Sinclair (2000) restored Oncomerinae as a subfamily of Tessaratomidae. Rolston et al. (1993) summarized the current classification in their world catalogue of the Tessaratomidae. Following Leston (1955), Leston (1956b) and Kumar (1969), they recognized the subfamilies Natalicolinae, Oncomerinae, and Tessaratominae, the last subdivided into three tribes: Prionogastrini, Sepinini, and Tessaratomini. Schuh and Slater (1995) recognized the three subfamilies mentioned above, the Tessaratominae subdivided into five tribes (Eusthenini, Platytatini, Prionogastrini, Sepinini, and Tessaratomini), and the Oncomerinae into two tribes (Oncomerini and Piezosternini). Sinclair (2000) revised the Oncomerinae, including in this subfamily 15 genera, but did not recognize Leston̕s division of the subfamily into Oncomerini and Piezosternini. Monteith (2006) described maternal care of eggs and nymphs in five genera of Oncomerinae, three of them also showing nymphal phoresy where the nymphs are carried on the modified body of the female for a period after hatching. <i>Analytical result</i>: Our unweighted parsimony analysis of morphological character data supports the monophyly of this group (Figs 42), as does analysis under successive weighting (Fig. 43), whereas analysis with PIWE under implied weights treats it as paraphyletic (Fig. 44). In the combined molecular results and 52- taxon total evidence analyses under a 1: 1 cost ratio (Figs 45 and 51, respectively) the Tessaratomidae is always monophyletic and is the sister group of the Dinidoridae. The Tessaratomidae is paraphyletic via inclusion of the Dinidoridae in the 92-taxon combined analysis using a 1: 1 cost ratio (Fig. 53), but is monophyletic using 1: 2 and 2: 2 cost ratios (Figs 54 and 55). As with the Dinidoridae, a broader sample of sequence data would provide a more rigorous test of the monophyly and sister-group relationships of the Tessaratomidae and help to resolve the historical indecision as to the composition of the group.
description: Published as part of <i>Grazia, Jocelia, Schuh, Randall T. &amp; Wheeler, Ward C., 2008, Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera), pp. 932-976 in Cladistics 24</i> on pages 967-968, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00224.x, http://zenodo.org/record/3968591
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