New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts
Phylogenetic relationships within the genus Wiseana (Lepidoptera:
Hepialidae)
BARBARA BROWN
ROWAN EMBERSON
ADRIAN PATERSON
Ecology and Entomology Group
P.O. Box 84
Lincoln University
New Zealand
email: brownb@lincoln.ac.nz
Abstract The genus
Wiseana Viette, part of the
`
Oxycanus' lineage
s. str. (Dugdale 1994), is well known to
systematists and applied scientists in New Zealand because it has proved
difficult to establish the number and distribution of species, and to find
characters to identify the species causing damage. We estimated the
phylogenetic relationships within
Wiseana using nucleotide sequence data
from the ITS2 region of the nuclear, ribosomal DNA. Relationships between
Wiseana signata haplotypes and
W. umbraculata were resolved using
the ITS2 region, and morphological and mtDNA data sets. Other relationships
within the genus could not be completely resolved using ITS2, or other data
sets. The advantages of combining independently derived
Wiseana data
sets is discussed.
Keywords New Zealand; nrDNA ITS2; pasture pest;
phylogeny; Wiseana
Z99005
Received 13 February 1999; accepted 4 August 1999
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