Eight new species of the genus Anaplecta Burmeister, 1838 (Blattodea: Blattoidea: Anaplectidae) from China based on molecular and morphological data

  • Wenbo Deng Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5796-241X
  • Yuchao Liu Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Zongqing Wang Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
  • Yanli Che Institute of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400715, China
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.720.1117
Keywords: ABGD, Anaplectinae, COI, DNA barcodes, GMYC, male genitalia

Abstract

In this study, we examine 500 specimens of Anaplecta collected from China, of which 26 samples were used for COI sequencing. We confirm eight new species, i.e., Anaplecta corneola Deng & Che sp. nov., Anaplecta staminiformis Deng & Che sp. nov., Anaplecta arcuata Deng & Che sp. nov., Anaplecta strigata Deng & Che sp. nov., Anaplecta furcata Deng & Che sp. nov., Anaplecta cruciata Deng & Che sp. nov., Anaplecta nigra Deng & Che sp. nov. and Anaplecta bicolor Deng & Che sp. nov. based on morphological and molecular data using ABGD and GMYC analyses. The results of ABGD and GMYC were basically consistent with the morphospecies of Anaplecta. The intraspecific and interspecific genetic distances of Anaplecta ranged from 0 to 6.6% and 16.8% to 31.8%, respectively. We found the male genitalia of Anaplecta to exhibit intraspecific variation, especially in the phallomeres.

References

Beccaloni G.W. 2014. Cockroach species file online. Ver. 5.0/5.0. Available from http://Cockroach.SpeciesFile.org [accessed 29 Jan. 2019].

Bey-Bienko G.Y. 1958. Results of the Chinese-Soviet Zoological-Botanical Expeditions of 1955–56 to southwestern China. Blattoidea of Szechuan and Yunnan II: 582–597.

Bey-Bienko G.Y. 1969. New genera and species of cockroaches (Blattoptera) from tropical and subtropical Asia. Entomologica Obozrenie 48: 831–862.

Bourguignon T., Tang Q., Ho S.Y.W., Juna F., Wang Z.Q., Arab D.A., Cameron S.L., Walker J., Rentz D., Evans T.A. & Lo N. 2018. Transoceanic dispersal and plate tectonics shaped global cockroach distributions: evidence from mitochondrial phylogenomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35: 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy013

Bruijning C.F.A. 1948. Studies on Malayan Blattidae. Zoologische Mededelingen 29: 1–174.

Brunner von Wattenwyl C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. G. Braunmüller Vienna.

Burmeister H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie II (2): 397–756. Reimer, Berlin.

Djernæs M. 2018. Biodiversity of Blattodea – the Cockroaches and Termites. In: Foottit R.G. & Adler P.H. (eds) Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society: 359–387. Wiley and Sons Ltd, New Jersey. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118945582.ch14

Djernæs M., Klass K.-D. & Eggleton P. 2015. Identifying possible sister groups of Cryptocercidae + Isoptera: A combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of Dictyoptera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 284–303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.08.019

Drummond A.J. & Rambaut A. 2007. BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 214. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-214

Ezard T.H.G., Fujisawa T. & Barraclough T.G. 2009. Splits: Species Limits by Treshold Statistics. Available from http://R-Forge.R-project.org/projects/splits/ [accessed 5 Jul. 2017].

Grandcolas P. 1993. Monophylie et structure phylogenetique des [Blaberinae + Zetoborinae + Gyninae + Diplopterinae] (Dictyoptera: Blaberidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (NS) 29 (2): 195–222.

Grandcolas P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 508–527. https://doi.org/10.1139/z96-059

Grandcolas P. 1997. The monophyly of the subfamily Perisphaeriinae (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Systematic Entomology 22: 123–130. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3113.1997.d01-28.x

Grandcolas P. 1999. Reconstructing the past of Cryptocercus (Blattaria: Polyphagidae): phylogenetic histories and stories. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 92: 303–307. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/92.3.303

Hanitsch R. 1915. Malayan Blattidae. Part I. Journal Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society 69: 17–178.

Hanitsch R. 1929. Fauma Sumatrensis. (Beitrag No. 63). Blattidae. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 72: 263–303.

Hanitsch R. 1930. Über eine Sammlung malayischer Blattiden des Dresdner Museums. (Orth.). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 91: 177–195.

Hanitsch R. 1931. On a Collection of Malayan Blattidae from the British Museum (Natural History). The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7: 385–408.

Hanitsch R. 1932. Beccari and Modigliani’s collection of Sumatran Blattidae in the museo civico, Genoa. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 36: 48–92.

Hebard M. 1929. Studies in Malayan Blattidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 81: 1–109.

Kimura M. 1980. A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution 16: 111–120. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01731581

Kirby W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera Vol. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera Cursori, et Gressoria 18: 61–209.

Lanfear R., Calcott B., Ho S.Y. & Guindon S. 2012. PartitionFinder: combined selection of partitioning schemes and substitution models for phylogenetic analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29: 1695–1701. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mss020

Li X.R., Zheng Y.H., Wang C.C. & Wang Z.Z. 2018. Old method not old-fashioned: parallelism between wing venation and wing-pad tracheation of cockroaches and a revision of terminology. Zoomorphology 137 (4): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-018-0419-6

McKittrick F.A. 1964. Evolutionary studies of cockroaches. Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Memoir 389: 1–197.

Princis K. 1960. Zur systematik der blattarien. Eos Transactions American Geophysical Union 36 (4): 427–449.

Princis K. 1965. Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam.: Oxyhaloidae, Panesthiidae, Cryptocercidae, Chorisoneuridae, Oulopterygidae, Diplopteridae, Anaplectidae, Archiblattidae, Nothoblattidae. In: Beier M. (ed.) Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 7: 284–400. W. Junk, The Hague.

Pons J., Barraclough T.G., Gomezzurita J., Cardoso A., Duran D.P., Hazell S., Kamoun S., Sumlin W.D. & Vogler A.P. 2006. Sequence-based species delimitation for the DNA taxonomy of undescribed insects. Systematic Biology 55: 595–609. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150600852011

Puillandre N., Lambert A., Brouillet S. & Achaz G. 2012. ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation. Molecular Ecology 21: 1864–1877. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05239.x

R Code Team C. 2013. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.

Roth L.M. 1990. Revisionary studies on Blattellidae (Blattaria) from the Indo-Australian region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 597–663.

Roth L.M. 1996. The cockroach genera Anaplecta, Anaplectella, Anaplectoidea, and Malaccina (Blattaria, Blattellidae: Anaplectinae and Blattellinae). Oriental Insects 30: 301–372.

Roth L.M. 2003. Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects 37: 1–186. https://doi.org/10.1080/00305316.2003.10417344

Saussure H.D. & Zehntner L. 1895. Revision de la tribu des Perisphaeriens (Insectes Orthoptéres de la famille des Blattides). Revue suisse de Zoologie 3: 1–59.

Shelford R. 1906. Studies of the Blattidae. Remarks on the sub-families Ectobiinae and Phyllodromiinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 54 (2): 231–278. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.1906.tb02474.x

Shelford R. 1908. New species of Blattidae in the collection of the Deutsche Entomologische National-Museum. (Orthoptera). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1908 (1): 115–131. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33769554 [accesed 21 Sep. 2020].

Shelford R. 1909. Descriptions of some new genera and species of Blattidae. (Orth). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909 (5): 611–624. Available from https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33103293 [accessed 21 Sep. 2020].

Shiraki T. 1931. Orthoptera of the Japanese Empire. II. Blattidae. Insecta Matsumurana 4 (4): 171–209.

Stamatakis A., Hoover P. & Rougemont J. 2008. A rapid bootstrap algorithm for the RAxML web servers. Systematic Biology 57: 758–771. https://doi.org/10.1080/10635150802429642

Walker F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. The Trustees of the British Museum, London. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8495

Wang Z.Q., Shi Y., Qiu Z.W., Che Y.L. & Lo N. 2017. Reconstructing the phylogeny of Blattodea: robust support for interfamilial relationships and major clades. Scientific Reports 7 (1): 3903. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04243-1

Published
2020-10-09
How to Cite
Deng, W., Liu, Y., Wang, Z., & Che, Y. (2020). Eight new species of the genus Anaplecta Burmeister, 1838 (Blattodea: Blattoidea: Anaplectidae) from China based on molecular and morphological data. European Journal of Taxonomy, 720(1), 77-106. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.720.1117
Issue
Vol. 720 (2020)
Section
Research article

Copyright (c) 2020 Wenbo Deng, Yuchao Liu, Zongqing Wang, Yanli Che

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons Copyright Notices

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are NOT ALLOWED TO post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to taxonomic issues.