The phylogeny and the interrelationships of the insect orders always remain a. Our understanding of bee phylogeny has improved over the past fifteen years as a result of new data, primarily nucleotide sequence data, and new methods, primarily modelbased methods of phylogeny reconstruction. In the present study, we explore inter and intraspecific genetic variation of monoctonina species, including. Thus handlirsch 19068,19269,1930 opposed the then current opinions on insect evolution and proposed the origin of winged insects from amphibious an cestors. David grimaldi american museum of natural history michael s. The protocol and resulting tree represent an advance in the analytic and phylogenetic framework, for an objectively and consistently determined species. In myriapods and insects, the head is a separate functional region. The phylogeny of the ichneumonid parasitoid wasp subfamily ateleutinae is investigated based on molecular data from five genes. The metathorax houses very large muscles asso ciated with the long and strong hind legs, which are used to power the prodigious leaps made by these insects. Females typically have a special ovipositor for inserting eggs into hosts or places that are otherwise inaccessible. The phylogeny and relationships between the inseet.
In this postgenomic era, insect systematics will be furthered best by integrative methods aimed at. Singlecopy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the. The evolution of insects is closely related to the evolution of flowering plants. Background higherlevel relationships within the lepidoptera, and particularly within the speciesrich subclade ditrysia, are generally not well understood, although recent studies have yielded progress. Summary the phylogeny of oestridae was analysed at the generic level using 118 characters from all developmental stages and including morphology, ontogeny, physiology and behaviour. Based on the phylogeny inferred herein, centrotines originated in the new world 6 tribes and subsequently invaded the old world twice, possibly via the bering land bridge, which would have facilitated western invasions from north america to the palearctic and indomalayan regions in the early tertiary. Morphology of insects relationships among the insect orders section 5. Insect, class insecta or hexapoda, any member of the largest class of the phylum arthropoda, which is itself the largest of the animal phyla. Higherlevel phylogeny of paraneopteran insects inferred from. The impact of molecular data on our understanding of bee. Insect evolution has paralleled that of the flowering plants. Insect fossilization dating and ages major fossil insect deposits section 3.
Higherlevel phylogeny of paraneopteran insects inferred. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. No technique or character system alone can guarantee to reveal the true relationships of the studied taxa. The phylogeny of insect orders based on morphology kristensen, 1991 and of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18s and 28s ribosomal dna sequences and morphology fig. As lepidoptera butterflies and moths, hymenoptera ants, bees, and wasps, diptera true flies, and coleoptera beetles began to feed upon flowers, nectar, or pollen, flowering plants came to rely more and more upon insects rather than upon the. Molecular phylogeny of the apterygotan insects based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Insect adaptations include feeding on flowers and related structures, with some 20% of extant insects depending on flowers, nectar or pollen for their food source. In this primer, michael engel outlines are present view of the evolution of the insect, a group that, with over a million documented species, stands out as one of the most remarkable lineages in the 3.
The journal publishes original research on systematics, evolution, and biodiversity of insects and related arthropods. This tree diagram shows the relationships between several groups of organisms. Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches dictyoptera. Insects have evolved unique features in the animal world that are a surprise to experts in biomechanics and bioengineering because many are recent inventions of humans. The insects 119 morphology of insects 119 general structure 119 the head 121 the thorax 125 the abdomen 1 defining features of the insects 7 relationships among the insect orders 7 a brief history of work 7 a roadmap to the phylogeny of insects 144 5. Evolution of the insects insects are the most diverse group of organisms to appear in the 3billionyear history of life on earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 proteincoding genes. Unlike mammals and plants, insects are obligate sterol auxotrophs because they lack an enzyme to cyclize squalene clayton, 1964, niwa and niwa, 2011, thus most insects acquire this essential nutrient from their diets. A largescale, higherlevel, molecular phylogenetic study of. The evolution of sociality in insects can be compared by analogy to other major evolutionary transitions, such as the evolution of multicellularity. The same is true for the typified names for higher insect taxa introduced by the rohdendorf school in. We present the most comprehensive molecular analysis of lepidopteran phylogeny to date, focusing on relationships among superfamilies.
Furthermore, within the myriapods and insects there is evidence that additional segments are added to form mouthparts. Feb 23, 2015 we analyzed the mt genomes of 25 insect species from the four paraneopteran orders, aiming to better understand how accelerated substitution rate and compositional heterogeneity affect the inferences of the higherlevel phylogeny of this diverse group of hemimetabolous insects. Insects have modified their body plans to adapt to their environment. The proventriculus of the dicondylia, with comments on evolution and phylogeny in dictyoptera and odonata insecta. Members of the monoctonina subtribe have long been neglected in applied studies of the subfamily aphidiinae, due to their low economic importance, as they do not parasitize pests of cultivated plants.
Hemiptera true bugs neuroptera lacewings coleoptera beetles diptera flies hymenoptera bees,wasps tricoptera caddisflies insect ancestors wings foldable wings wingless insects no external wing development lepidoptera moths six legs. Ecology and evolution of communication in social insects. Calman had proposed a close relationship between insects and crustaceans based on comparative anatomical characteristics. Evolution of dragonflies university of pennsylvania. The primary goal of his study, however, was not to investigate the phylogeny of the dictyoptera. Many orders wont be encountered or noticed because of. Consequently, data about this group are scarce, including its taxonomy and phylogeny. Zoraptera is a small and predominantly tropical insect order with an unresolved higher classification due to the extremely uniform external body morphology. Ant phylogeny although impressionistic treelike diagrams can be found in earlier literature e. For the insects, the genome size is clearly phylogeny dependent, reflecting primarily their life history and mode of development, while for crustaceans there was a weaker association between genome size and phylogeny, suggesting life cycle strategies and habitat as more important determinants.
Isd is actively seeking papers on evolution of insect development and comparative behavior of insects. Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many major lineages remain unresolved. However, books that emphasize the morphology of insects in an evolutionary phylogenetic context are scarce. The book begins with an overview of insect flight biomechanics. A multiple sequence alignment of 12 hemocyanin and 31 hexamerin subunits was constructed and used for studying sequence conservation and protein phylogeny. The evolution of hexamerins and the phylogeny of insects.
Insect family tree maps 400millionyear evolution live science. Insects have segmented bodies, jointed legs, and external skeletons exoskeletons. Insect morphology and systematics pdf book agrimoon. A comprehensive analysis of insect evolution examines the relationships and evolution of each order of hexapods, as well as major episodes in the evolutionary history of insects, their living diversity, evolutionary relationships, major fossil deposits, and key episodes in insect evolution, all enhanced by hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. Phylogeny and evolution of the cholesterol transporter npc1. As a brief reminder, the circulatory system in insects is classed as. Mar 20, 2014 despite considerable progress in systematics, a comprehensive scenario of the evolution of phenotypic characters in the megadiverse holometabola based on a solid phylogenetic hypothesis was still missing. Divergence time estimates calibrated by minimum age constraints from 43 fossils indicate that most of. Abstractpushpull strategies involve the behavioral manipulation of insect pests and their natural enemies via the integration of stimuli that act to make the protected resource unattractive or unsuitable to the pests push while luring them toward an. In insects, the digestive tract is the organ for absorbing nutrients, including sterols kuthiala and ritter, 1988. We, therefore, conducted a multigene molecular phylogeny of extant zoraptera and critically reevaluated their morphological characters in order to propose a natural infraordinal classification.
The latter clade comprises myriapods centipedes, millipedes, and their relatives, chelicerates horseshoe crabs and arachnids, crustaceans crabs, shrimps, and relatives, and hexapods the sixlegged arthropods. Insects belong to arguably the most successful major lineage of the phylum arthropoda, the jointlegged animals. Entomologists still depend of snodgrass, whose principles of insect morphology, published in. There are close to 1 million named species of insects, and the most reliable estimates suggest that the global total is between 5 and 10 million species 2,3. Integrating morphology and phylogenomics supports a. Hexapoda includes insects and their kin springtails, proturans, and diplurans.
Phylogenetic studies based on single or, more commonly, multilocus data sets have helped resolve the placement of bees within the superfamily apoidea. Morphology is one of the most venerable disciplines of entomology, and now in the era of genomics came to become a secondary discipline. Lepidoptera boast greater information content, this accompanies computational burdens. Many insects, however, are beneficial from a human viewpoint. Insects are the most diverse group of animals, with the largest number of species. Phylogenomic analyses of nucleotide and amino acid sequences, with sitespecific nucleotide or domainspecific amino acid substitution models, produced. Over 150,000 living species of hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones.
Kambhampati 1995 constructed a phylogeny of cockroaches and related insects based on mitochondrial 16s and 12s rrna genes, and found that termites were the sister group to a clade consisting of cockroaches and mantids. The classification and phylogeny of insects springerlink. The root of the current tree connects the organisms featured in this tree to their containing group and the rest of the tree of life. In a popular sense, insect usually refers to familiar pests or disease carriers, such as bedbugs, houseflies, clothes moths, japanese beetles, aphids, mosquitoes, fleas, horseflies, and hornets, or to conspicuous groups, such as butterflies, moths, and beetles. The classification of insects has passed through many changes and with the growth of detailed knowledge an increasing number of orders has come to be recognized. Crustacea includes lobsters, shrimp, crabs, barnacles, and pillbugs. But in the crustacea and chelicerata, the head and thorax develop together as a single body region, the cephalothorax. Insect relationships are increasingly well supported, due largely to technological advances in molecular sequencing and phylogenetic computational analysis. Molecular phylogeny of orthopteroid insects based on the. The phylogeny of insects is the fulcrum that underlies various macroevolutionary phenomena, such as the evolution of winged flight, parental care, cospeciation with plants, and morphological specializations for diverse modes of feeding, to name but a few. Four major clades were given subfamilial rank with the phylogenetic. However, many of the evolutionary relationships between insect species have been controversial and difficult to resolve.
Although there is a single evolutionary history, efforts to uncover this phylogeny vary between different researchers, techniques, and character systems studied. Pdf molecular phylogeny of the apterygotan insects based on. Phylogeny, classification, and specieslevel taxonomy of ants. The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred. A new phylogenetic tree of insects explains how and when the most diverse group of animals on earth originated and evolved. The orders protorthoptera and orthoptera, psyche, 73, 4688. Phylogeny and systematics of the treehopper subfamily.
The method is tested on a set of cladograms developed recently to reveal the phylogeny of the hymenopterous insects order. Like most other bilateral animals, the mt genomes of insects typically contain proteincoding genes pcgs, 22 transfer rna trna genes, two ribosomal rna rrna genes, and a large non. Priority is given to taxonomic revisions and phylogenetic studies employing morphological and molecular data. Ideas concerning the phylogenetic relationships among the major taxa of arthropods, and the included insects, are dynamic. Representatives of each hexapod order are included perhaps the most diverse and ubiquitous animals on.
Evolution produces diverse forms and structures throughout the insects. Insects have been in competition with humans for the products of our labor ever since cultivation of soil began. Introductory sections include the living species, diversity of insects, methods of reconstructing evolutionary relationships, basic insect structure, and the diverse modes of insect fossilization and major fossil deposits. Even with this expanded transcriptome backbone, support is still insufficient for. Insects possibly evolved due to the first appearance of seedless vascular plants.
For example, the division of labor in eusocial insects resembles the diversification of cells that take over specific tasks in a multicellular organism. Pdf evolution of the insects download full pdf book. Rolf beutel and collaborators have filled a huge void with this book on morphology and phylogeny of insects. The classification of insects has passed through many changes and with the growth of detailed knowledge an increasing number of orders has come to be. Phylogeny of endopterygote insects, the most successful lineage of. Consequently, we used milkweed bugs as an outgroup.
Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis, collectively known as holometabola, represent the vast majority of animal life on earth. Even with this expanded transcriptome backbone, support is still insufficient for some historically problematic nodes, particularly in polyneoptera and paraneoptera. The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects. Phylogenetic relationships of the orders of hexapoda. The seven specifically designed decisive datasets that we analyzed to address our seven phylogenetic questions each consisted of a subset of taxa and genes. Dna sequencing and analyses have advanced rapidly in the past decade and the utility of mitochondrial mt genomes for phylogenetic inference at various taxonomic levels has been exploited 1,2,3,4,5. Reconstruction of insect phylogeny has indeed pro gressed over the past. The phylogeny of insects has been both extensively studied and vigorously. Millions of years ago 500 400 300 200 100 present day wings can fold over backno external wing developmentfeeding on flowering plants diversification of pollinators of flowering plantssocial behavior ancestors of insects, spiders, and centipedes hit landfirst insects first winged insects moths bees, ants wingless wings cant fold. According to fossil records, insects appeared quickly after plants in order to possibly fill in a new niche.
Dictyoptera, which comprises cockroaches, termites and mantids, is a quite successful group of insects in evolutionary terms with a long fossil recordroachoid insects were already abundant 315 million years ago in the carboniferous forests. Editorschoice evolution of reproductive strategies in. A comprehensive analysis of insect evolution examines the relationships and evolution of each order of hexapods, as well as major episodes in the evolutionary history of insects, their living diversity, evolutionary relationships, major. Factors for insects abundance classification of phylum arthropoda upto classes. Free how to download pdf book full guide agriculture at a glance book outlines of insect morphology and systematics history of entomology in india. The ellipura collembola paleoptera 1 protura were also supported by hennig 1953. Farris department of biology, west virginia university, 39, life sciences building, 53 campus drive, morgantown, wv 26506, usa received 20 october 2004. All but two subfamilies are recovered as monophyletic. Reductive evolution of bacterial genome in insect gut. Wellfounded and less wellfounded traditional, even refuted, relationships are discussed, and if resolution appears to be lacking, this inadequacy is identified.
Dudley explains insect morphology, wing motions, aerodynamics, flight energetics, and flight metabolism within a modern phylogenetic setting. Reductive evolution of bacterial genome in insect gut environment naruo nikoh1, takahiro hosokawa2, kenshiro oshima3, masahira hattori3, and takema fukatsu,2 1department of liberal arts, the open university of japan, chiba, japan 2bioproduction research institute, national institute of advanced industrial science and technology aist, tsukuba, japan 3center for omics and bioinformatics. Maximum likelihood analyses recovered a strongly supported monophyletic clade circumscribing the subfamily ateleutinae. Although hexamerins and hemocyanins belong to a highly divergent protein superfamily and only 18 amino acid positions are identical in all. Most species on earth are insects and thus, understanding their evolutionary relationships is key to understanding the evolution of life. The evolutionary relationships among arthropod hemocyanins and insect hexamerins were investigated. Wheeler and others published the phylogeny of the insect orders find, read and cite all the research you need on. We present a largescale molecular phylogeny of the ants hymenoptera. Methodology principal findings 483 taxa spanning 115 of. Pdf the phylogeny of the insect orders researchgate.
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