{"id":4476,"date":"2013-02-15T17:05:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2013-02-15T17:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T16:05:07","slug":"changes-in-subgeneric-classification-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/2013\/02\/15\/changes-in-subgeneric-classification-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in subgeneric classification 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">A recent study (Sedivy et al., 2013c) proposed to unite all <em>Hoplitis<\/em> species of the subgenera <em>Annosmia<\/em>, <em>Bytinskia<\/em>, <em>Coloplitis<\/em> and <em>Hoplitis<\/em> (the \u201e<em>Annosmia-Hoplitis<\/em> group\u201c) in a single subgenus <em>Hoplitis<\/em> because i) <em>Annosmia<\/em> is polyphyletic in its current circumscription, ii) the cleptoparasitic <em>Bytinskia<\/em> species have evolved from the same lineage as their <em>Annosmia<\/em> hosts, iii) the most basal clade of <em>Hoplitis<\/em> is morphologically and biologically intermediate between <em>Annosmia<\/em> and <em>Hoplitis<\/em>, and iv) <em>Coloplitis<\/em> is morphologically very close to <em>Annosmia<\/em>. An alternative solution to eliminate the polyphyly of <em>Annosmia<\/em> would be the establishment of a monotypic subgenus for the most basal species of the <em>Annosmia-Hoplitis<\/em> group, <em>Hoplitis bassana<\/em>, which, however, appears unjustified owing to the morphological similarity of <em>H. bassana<\/em> with <em>Annosmia<\/em>. Merging all four subgenera into a single large subgenus results in a monophylectic taxon, which is morphologically distinctive due to a conspicuous yellowish membrane below the lateral extremity of the labrum that is present in all species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study (Sedivy et al., 2013c) proposed to unite all Hoplitis species of the subgenera Annosmia, Bytinskia, Coloplitis and Hoplitis (the \u201eAnnosmia-Hoplitis group\u201c) in a single subgenus Hoplitis because i) Annosmia is polyphyletic in its current circumscription, ii) the cleptoparasitic Bytinskia species have evolved from the same lineage as their Annosmia hosts, iii) the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taxonomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}