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A Re-evaluation of the Eucnemidae larval characters (Coleoptera)

Abstract

The larval characters of Eucnemidae are re-evaluated. Tribe Schizophilini Muona, 1993Muona, J. 1993. Review of the phylogeny, classification and biology of the family Eucnemidae (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplement, 44: 1-133. is considered to merit subfamily rank as Schizophilinae Muona new status. Larval characters congruent with previously used adult morphological characters support the earlier published sister-group hypotheses for lignicolous eucnemids with one exception, Pseudomeninae, which is here split resulting in the following evolutionary hypothesis: (Pseudomeninae (Schizophilinae (Paleoxeninae (Melasinae, Eucneminae, Macraulcinae)))). The position of three remaining clades, Anischiinae, Perothopinae and Phyllocerinae remain ambiguous.

Key-Words.
Evolution; Phylogenetics; Coleoptera; Eucnemidae

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