Lampromeloe, Reitter, 1911

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, López-Estrada, Estefany Karen, Ruiz, José L. & García-París, Mario, 2024, Taxonomy of West-Palaearctic Lampromeloe (Coleoptera: Meloidae) with the description of a new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 917, pp. 19-49 : 26

Phylogenetic relationships within Lampromeloe

The final alignment consisted of 1447 bp of the concatenated dataset of COI and 16S. The Bayesian hypothesis strongly supports the reciprocal monophyly between L. variegatus from Europe and L. pantherinus sp. nov. from Morocco (BPP = 1) that together form a clade sister to L. cavensis (BPP = 1) ( Fig. 2 ). The CAD gene fragments of the analysed specimens of L. variegatus and L. pantherinus differ by two base substitutions from each other, and by eight minimum mutations with respect to specimens of L. cavensis . Intraspecific genetic distance (COI dataset) of the three analysed samples of L. pantherinus ranges between 0.3% and 1%, whereas between L. pantherinus and L. variegatus (n = 9) varies from 4.9 to 6.2%. The specimens of L. pantherinus from Jbel Tsiwant and from Tizi n’Tichka, separated by around 390 km, are very similar genetically between them (0.3–1%), and so are the geographically distant populations of L. variegatus from the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe (0.7–2.9%) or those of L. cavensis from the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco (0.1–0.8%).

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Fig. 2. Bayesian phylogenetic relationships based on mtDNA (COI and 16S) of the genus Lampromeloe Reitter, 1911. High bayesian posterior probabilities (> 98%) are denoted by a dot on each corresponding node.