Subtribal classification of Metriorrhynchini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Lycidae): an integrative approach using molecular phylogeny and morphology of adults and larvae

The collections of the Natural History cation was morphology-based and used 72 characters in Museums in London, Warsaw and Paris were used for the the mouthparts, thorax and genitalia of both sexes along study of the type material and distributions. [...] The morphological part of the study is the classification of the lineage and to investigate in detail based on adult and larval semaphoronts. [...] Evolutionary analysis of morphologi- pair of fronto-lateral carinae (FLC); a single lanceolate cal characters areola is located along midline in the posterior part of the pronotum, bordered laterally by the postero-lateral areolae; the postero-lateral areolae are separated from The ancestral states and the further evolution of selected the fronto-lateral areolae by the postero-lateral carinae morp. [...] reported by levkanicova & Bocak (2009) and shows Similarly, the distribution of flabellate antennae sug- the importance of the multi-marker reference database gests multiple origins and our optimization was ambigu- for placement of unidentified samples in the phyloge- ous regarding the root of Metriorrhynchini. [...] Parsimony reconstruction of ancestral character states: 2: the structure of antennae; 3: the number of elytral costae; 4: the length of the elytral costa 1; 5: the structure of the pronotal areolae.