A DNA Barcode Library of Some Neuroptera from Azerbaijan

Kerimova I. G., Krivokhatsky V. A., Aydemir M. N., Mamedova L. N.

Punjab University Journal of Zoology, cilt.37, sa.2, ss.169-174, 2022 (Hakemli Dergi)

Özet

COI sequences were obtained for 25 species of Neuroptera. It is difficult to recognizethe immature antlions of Palpares libelluloides (Linnaeus, 1764) and P. turcicus with similarbrown rings on the last abdominal segments. The specimen that could not be determined wasmarked as “Palpares sp. questionable”. The genetic method has finally solved this question;now Palpares sp. questionable (IGK15) is surely assigned to P. turcicus. Myrmecaelurus solaris(Krivokhatsky, 2002) (IGK2) ML. and M. trigrammus (Pallas, 1781) (IGK22) differ from eachother in dendrogram by more than 10%. The NJ tree shows that the genus Myrmecaelurus(Costa, 1855) is supported by 97-100%, and it is connected with another close genus Nohoveus(Navás, 1918) (Azerbaijanian N. zigan) and Chinese population of N. atrifrons (Hölzel, 1970).The sequences of Bubopsis hamata (Klug, 1834) (IGK25) and B. andromache (Aspöck et al.,1979) (IGK26) turned to be identical. A genetic approach forces us to synonymize these twonames: Ascalaphus hamata (Klug, 1834) Bubopsis andromache (Aspöck et al., 1979) syn. n. Anoticeable convergence of the compact cluster of the genus Bubopsis (Mac Lachlan, 1898) withthe owlfly Deleproctophylla variegata (Klug, 1845), which, together belongs to the subfamily(Ascalaphinae Lefèbvre, 1842), indicates a characteristic point of embranchment in the genusLibelloides (Schäffer, 1763) inside Libelloidini Pantaleoni, (Loru, 2018). Thus, Libelloidini is adaughter tribe within Ascalaphinae. Although the support between the clades of L. macaroniuskolyvanensis – L. hispanicus ustulatus – D. variegata and B. hamata + B. andromache is not so high(44), it organizes the traditional owlflies of the Ascalaphidae family into one cluster, opposedto the cluster that unites all the studied antlions (Myrmeleontidae).Thus, the proposal to mergethe Myrmeleontidae and Ascalaphidae into one family as suggested by Machado et al. (2018)is not supported by our data