‘Where is my family?’ Molecular and morphological data reveal the phylogenetic position and diversity of the enigmatic handsome fungus beetle genus Anamycetaea Strohecker, 1975 (Coleoptera, Coccinelloidea)
Wioletta Tomaszewska
A * , Karol Szawaryn A and Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela A
A Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, P-00-679 Warsaw, Poland.
Invertebrate Systematics 37(4) 231-253 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS22053
Submitted: 22 October 2022 Accepted: 14 March 2023 Published: 3 April 2023
© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY)
Abstract
The genus Anamycetaea Strohecker, 1975, established for Anamycetaea keralae, a single species from India, was originally placed in the diverse endomychid subfamily Mycetaeinae and has subsequently been considered a member of the subfamily Anamorphinae based on closed mesocoxal cavities, a postulated synapomorphy of this group. Recent molecular research resulted in raising Anamorphinae to family level and revealed this group to be distantly related to Endomychidae sensu stricto. However, Anamycetaea has been ‘neglected’ since description. Our detailed study of this genus has been possible due to new material collected from Oriental and Australian regions. Striking overall similarity to the endomychine genus Tharina and a tentorium with anterior arms fused medially (separated in almost all Anamorphidae) have raised our doubts and led to further investigation of the phylogenetic placement of this enigmatic genus within Endomychidae sensu lato (handsome fungus beetles). Phylogenetic analyses of molecular and morphological datasets were conducted under Bayesian (BI), maximum likelihood (ML) and parsimony (MP) frameworks. Our results recovered Anamycetaea as belonging to the family Endomychidae, in the subfamily Endomychinae, distant from Anamorphidae. The close affinity to Stenotarsus and allies was strongly supported in all analyses. Based on material studied, A. keralae is described in detail here and includes description of previously unknown male genitalia. Four new species are also described, extending the ragne of the genus to the Australian region: Anamycetaea borneensis sp. nov. (from Borneo), A. novoguineensis sp. nov. and A. papuensis sp. nov. (from Papua New Guinea) and A. queenslandica sp. nov. (from Australia). Illustrations of morphological details and diagnoses are provided for each species. A key to the species of the genus is also presented.
ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90BAA954-7849-4FA9-997B-061FE7BB5702
Keywords: Anamorphidae, Australian region, Endomychidae, entomology, new species, Oriental region, phylogenetic position, taxonomy.
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