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Molecular Phylogeny of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) and the Evolution of Sociality in Wasps

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Schmitz; Robin F.A. Moritz

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
242 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
1055-7903

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✦ Synopsis

The oriental Stenogastrinae is a group in which there is considerable interest as regards the study of evolution of sociality in wasps, because they show broad diversity in social behavior. Using cladistic analysis on morphological and behavioral data, they have been grouped together with the social Vespinae and Polistinae in the family of Vespidae. This is not without dispute, because several other morphological and behavioral characters separate Stenogastrinae from the other Vespidae subfamilies. DNA sequences were obtained from nuclear 28S ribosomal DNA and the mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA of two Apis species and nine social and three solitary wasp species of the family Vespidae. Solitary wasps of the family Braconidae and Pteromalidae were used as outgroups. Parsimony, distance, and maximum-likelihood methods of both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA did not support the conventional phylogenetic position of Stenogastrinae. In all phylogenetic reconstructions, the solitary Eumeninae were a sister taxon to the Polistinae + Vespinae cluster. The analyzed sequences provide strong evidence that sociality has independently evolved twice in the Vespidae.

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