Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
BIOLOGIA, cilt.79, sa.2, ss.545-555, 2024 (SCI-Expanded)
Lamiinae (Cerambycidae, Coleoptera) is a striking subfamily due to its members' economic importance and role in the forest ecosystem. Morphological diversity, worldwide distribution and species richness complicate its already intricate phylogenetic relationships. We implemented Maximum Likelihood (ML) and time-scaled Bayesian Inference (BI) analyses to the species from East of Marmara Basin, Turkiye, from the tribes Acanthocinini, Acanthoderini, Agapanthiini, Batocerini, Dorcadionini, Lamiini, Mesosini, Monochamini, Phytoeciini, Phrynetini, Pogonocherini (including Exocentrini) and Saperdini using partial mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase-I (COI) and 16S rRNA and nuclear 28S rRNA gene regions (2257 base pair alignment length) and Neighbor-Joining (NJ) and ML analysis to the global COI gene region dataset (658 bp). The most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of Lamiinae members included in the analyses was dated similar to 127 million years ago (Mya) in the Cretaceous. The MRCA of Dorcadionini, Lamiini and Monochamini was younger than the common ancestors of the other close tribes. There was a concurrence between resolutions of ML and BI on the affiliations of Dorcadionini and Monochamini to Lamiini and the proximity of Batocerini to Lamiini, Acanthocinini to Acanthoderini, Phrynetini to Pogonocherini, and Phytoeciini to Saperdini. The COI-based NJ and ML gene trees suggest that the closest relatives of most of the sampled Lamiinae species from the East of Marmara Basin were the European conspecifics or congeners. Our results support Dorcadionini and Monochamini as synonyms of Lamiini; and Phytoeciini of Saperdini. Also, they suggest that the emergence of the living tribes included in this study was during the Paleogene, and their intrageneric diversifications occurred during the Cenozoic, mostly the Neogene.