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Invertebrate Systematics Invertebrate Systematics Society
Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography
Invertebrate Systematics

Invertebrate Systematics

Volume 38 Number 5 2024

IS24029Mitogenome architecture supports the non-monophyly of the cosmopolitan parasitoid wasp subfamily Doryctinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) recovered by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenomics

Rubén Castañeda-Osorio 0000-0003-0507-5477, Sergey A. Belokobylskij 0000-0002-3646-3459, Jovana M. Jasso-Martínez 0000-0001-6497-7150, Ernesto Samacá-Sáenz 0000-0001-6922-7703, Robert R. Kula and Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón 0000-0001-5837-1929

Main clades of the subfamily Doryctinae (left) and doryctine genus representative, Spathius elegans (right).

Subfamily Doryctinae constitutes mainly parasitoid and some phytophagous braconid wasps. Molecular studies recovered a non-monophyletic Doryctinae. We characterised several mitogenomes and conducted phylogenetic analyses to assess the monophyly and higher-level classification. We identified rearrangements of mitochondrial transfer RNAs that support a non-monophyletic Doryctinae constituting two separate unrelated clades, also supported by phylogenetic analyses of mitogenome and nuclear data. Utility of the mitogenome rearrangements was highlighted as a potential source of phylogenetic information at different evolutionary timescales. (Image credit: Rubén Castañeda-Osorio.)

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