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Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad SysEB: Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics

Teamwork makes the dream work: a collaborative phylogenetic analysis of Aphelinidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) using UCE and AHE targeted loci approaches

Monday, November 1, 2021
9:00 AM – 9:12 AM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 205
In-Person Student Competition

    Presenting Author(s)

  • Robert L. Kresslein

    Ph.D. Candidate
    University of California
    Riverside, California

    • Co-Author(s)

  • John Heraty

    Professor
    University of California
    Riverside, California

Aphelinidae are an economically important family of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) specializing on plant feeding insects including whiteflies, scale insects and aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha). Attempts to recover a morphological phylogenetic hypothesis for Aphelinidae have been unsuccessful due to extensive homoplasy across the family. Furthermore, phylogenies constructed from Sanger sequencing datasets recover a polyphyletic Aphelinidae. Here we present preliminary phylogenetic hypotheses for Aphelinidae using expansive ultra conserved element (207 taxa, 185,513 bp) and Anchored Hybrid Enrichment (94 taxa, 447,698 bp) loci datasets. With these hypotheses, we establish the monophlyly of the Aphelinidae and its constituent subfamlies, and we present a framework for a revised classification of tribes.