PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE GENUS CHINAVIA ORIAN (HEMIPTERA: PENTATOMIDAE) WITH EMPHASIS ON THE GENITAL EVOLUTION OF THE GENICULATA GROUP

• Grant number: 12/24620-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): April 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Biological Sciences - Zoology - Taxonomy of Recent Groups
• Principal Investigator: Cristiano Feldens Schwertner
• Grantee: Bruno Celso Feltrin Genevcius
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas (ICAQF). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Diadema. Diadema , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The genus Chinavia Orian comprises 79 species broadly distributed in the Afrotropical, Neartic and Neotropical regions. Some species groups have been proposed based on morphological similarity, as the geniculata group. That group includes 13 species broadly distributed in South America, that shows unique patterns of body shape and genital morphology. Those genital features are often used in taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of insects due to their high rates of interspecific variation. However, they are poorly understood from an evolutionary perspective. Within Pentatomidae, genital structures have only been superficially explored, and we are far from understanding the evolutionary processes behind its diversification. This work aims to propose a phylogenetic hypotesis to the geniculata group and test whether the sexual selection plays an important role in both male and female genital evolution.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

GENEVCIUS, B. C.; CAETANO, D. S.; SCHWERTNER, C. F.. Rapid differentiation and asynchronous coevolution of male and female genitalia in stink bugs. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, v. 30, n. 3, p. 461-473, MAR 2017. (14/21104-1, 12/24620-5)

GENEVCIUS, BRUNO C.; SCHWERTNER, CRISTIANO F.. Review and phylogeny of the geniculata group, genus Chinavia (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), with notes on biogeography and morphological evolution. Zootaxa, v. 3847, n. 1, p. 33-56, AUG 6 2014. (12/24620-5)