Department of Botany and Mycology, M. Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka St., 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
J Insect Sci. 2012;12:16. doi: 10.1673/031.012.1601.
The systematics of the family Apionidae, as well as the superfamily Curculionoidea, is currently in a state of flux. The comparative analyses of COI sequences from our studies shed some light on the systematics of these weevils. To study the relationship among the organisms of the family Apionidae, we determined the COI sequences of representatives of 23 species and 15 genera, i.e., Apion, Betulapion, Catapion, Ceratapion, Cyanapion, Eutrichapion, Exapion, Hemitrichapion, Holotrichapion, Ischnopterapion, Protapion, Pseudoperapion, Psudoprotapion, Pseudostenapion, and Stenopterapion. Then, they were compared with the COI sequences of 19 species and eight genera from GenBank (Aspidapion, Ceratapion, Exapion, Ischnopterapion, Lepidapion, Omphalapion, Oxystoma, and Protapion). The phylogenetic relationships inferred from molecular data are similar to the classification system developed by Alonso-Zarazaga and Lyal ( 1999 ), with some exceptions within the tribe Oxystomatini, and genera Ceratapion and Exapion.
象甲科以及沟胫天牛总科的系统发育目前处于变化之中。我们的研究通过对 COI 序列的比较分析,对这些象甲的系统发育有了一些了解。为了研究象甲科生物之间的关系,我们测定了 23 个种和 15 个属,即 Apion、Betulapion、Catapion、Ceratapion、Cyanapion、Eutrichapion、Exapion、Hemitrichapion、Holotrichapion、Ischnopterapion、Protapion、Pseudoperapion、Psudoprotapion、Pseudostenapion 和 Stenopterapion 的 COI 序列,并与 GenBank 中 19 个种和 8 个属(Aspidapion、Ceratapion、Exapion、Ischnopterapion、Lepidapion、Omphalapion、Oxystoma 和 Protapion)的 COI 序列进行了比较。从分子数据推断出的系统发育关系与 Alonso-Zarazaga 和 Lyal(1999)提出的分类系统相似,但在 Oxystomatini 族以及 Ceratapion 和 Exapion 属内存在一些例外。