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. 2023 Mar 8;14(3):267.
doi: 10.3390/insects14030267.

Molecular Phylogeny of Cimicoidea (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) Revisited: Increased Taxon Sampling Reveals Evolution of Traumatic Insemination and Paragenitalia

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Molecular Phylogeny of Cimicoidea (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) Revisited: Increased Taxon Sampling Reveals Evolution of Traumatic Insemination and Paragenitalia

Sunghoon Jung et al. Insects. .

Abstract

The molecular phylogeny of the Cimicoidea was reconstructed from an expanded sampling based on mitochondrial (16S, COI) and nuclear (18S, 28SD3) genes. The data were analyzed using maximum likelihood (ML), maximum parsimony (MP), and Bayesian inference (BI) phylogenetic frameworks. The phylogenetic relationships inferred by the model-based analyses (ML and BI) were largely congruent with those inferred by the MP analysis in terms of the monophyly of most of the higher taxonomic groups and the species-level relationships. The following clades were recovered in all analyses: Cimiciformes; Nabidae: Prostemmatinae; Nabidae: Nabinae; Plokiophilidae; Microphysidae; Lasiochilidae; Cimicidae: Cacodminae; Cimicidae; Lyctocoridae; Anthocoridae s. str.; Cardiastethini excluding Amphiareus; Almeidini; Scolopini; Anthocorini; Oriini; Curaliidae + Lasiochilidae; Almeidini + Xylocorini; Oriini + Cardiastethini; and Anthocorini + Amphiareus. Reconstructions of ancestral copulation states based on Bayesian and parsimony inference indicated that at least one shift from standard insemination (SI) to traumatic insemination (TI) occurred within Cimicoidea, and an investigation of the evolutionary correlation between TI and paragenitalia (PG) revealed that the acquisition of PG in cimicoid females was correlated with the TI habit. Additionally, our morphological examination of various types of PG suggested that even the same PG type may not constitute a homologous feature at various taxonomic levels, indicating the convergent evolution of female morphology to adapt to TI.

Keywords: Cimicoidea; Heteroptera; evolution; paragenitalia; phylogeny; traumatic insemination.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Habitus photographs of cimicoid species. (a) Cimex pipistrelli aggregating in a roost in Točník Castle (Bohemia, Czech Republic) where Myotis myotis (greater mouse-eared bat, Vespertilionidae) dwells; (b) C. pipistrelli feeding on Nyctalus noctula’s wing (common noctule, Vespertilionidae) (Slovakia; photo taken by M. Celuch); (c) just-emerged Anthocoris chibi on Artemisia princeps var. orientalis (Korea); (d) Lasiochilus japonicus dwelling under the bark of a dead oak tree (Korea); (e) Orius minutus during winter hibernation under the bark of Zelkova serrata (Ulmaceae) (Korea).
Figure 2
Figure 2
A copulation scene of traumatic insemination (TI) and various types of paragenitalia (PG) and male paramere. (A, C) Scanning electron microscope of Cimex lectularius; ectospermalege and male paramere are magnified in dotted box. (B) TI between male (upper) and female (lower) (Cimex lectularius). (D) Blaptostethus aurivillus, representing double copulatory tube (dct) (modified after Yamada (2008) [17]); (E) Scoloposcelis albodecussata, representing copulatory tube (ct) (modified after Yamada and Hirowatari (2005) [18]); (F) Xylocoris cerealis representing ectospermalege (es) (modified after Yamada et al. (2006) [19]); (G) Buchananiella pericarti representing omphalus (op) (modified after Yamada and Yasunaga (2009) [20]).
Figure 3
Figure 3
Maximum likelihood tree and ML bootstrap support values (>50%). Traumatic insemination (TI) clades and taxa highlighted in red; standard insemination clade and taxa highlighted in green. Uncertain taxa and clades in terms of their copulating habits highlighted in light blue. Taxa in bold indicate whose females evolved PG. Reconstructions of ancestral copulating method using BayesTraits are indicated as pie charts that shows the posterior probabilities of each type at the respective nodes representing higher-taxa relationships.

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