DOI: 10.4039/ent105733-5. A NUMERICAL TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF <i>BOMBUS</i> AND <i>PSITHYRUS</i> (APIDAE: HYMENOPTERA)

A NUMERICAL TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF BOMBUS AND PSITHYRUS (APIDAE: HYMENOPTERA)

10.4039/ent105733-5

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Cambridge University Press (CUP)

The Canadian Entomologist (56)

Abstract

AbstractThe question of whether the evolutionary origin of the parasitic bumble bees (Psithyrus Lep.) was monophyletic or polyphyletic has not been convincingly resolved by conventional systematics. In this study numerical taxonomic (NT) analysis was applied to data on wing venation from a set of 13 species of Psithyrus and 60 species of non-parasitic bumble bees (Bombus Latr.), representing 16 of the subgeneric divisions recognized by Richards. The resultant cluster analysis gave an almost perfect grouping of the constituent Bombus species into their ’correct’ subgenera. This was taken as evidence that the NT procedure had yielded discriminant criteria of evolutionary significance. Since the same criteria also produced a single grouping of the Psithyrus species, the results support a monophyletic origin for Psithyrus.

Bibliography

Plowright, R. C., & Stephen, W. P. (1973). A NUMERICAL TAXONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF BOMBUS AND PSITHYRUS (APIDAE: HYMENOPTERA). The Canadian Entomologist, 105(5), 733â743.

Authors 2

R. C. Plowright (first)
W. P. Stephen (additional)

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Type	When
Created	15 years, 9 months ago (Dec. 1, 2009, 2:43 p.m.)
Deposited	5 years, 4 months ago (April 22, 2020, 4:38 a.m.)
Indexed	3 months, 1 week ago (May 26, 2025, 1:23 a.m.)
Issued	52 years, 4 months ago (May 1, 1973)
Published	52 years, 4 months ago (May 1, 1973)
Published Online	13 years, 3 months ago (May 31, 2012)
Published Print	52 years, 4 months ago (May 1, 1973)

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BibTeX

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