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Nikolas P. Johnston, J. Wallman, M. Dowton, K. Szpila, T. Pape
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020
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Johnston, N. P., Wallman, J., Dowton, M., Szpila, K., & Pape, T. (2020). Taxonomic revision of Australian Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae): integrating morphology and genetics finds a new species and tackles old problems. European Journal of Taxonomy.
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Johnston, Nikolas P., J. Wallman, M. Dowton, K. Szpila, and T. Pape. “Taxonomic Revision of Australian Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae): Integrating Morphology and Genetics Finds a New Species and Tackles Old Problems.” European Journal of Taxonomy (2020).
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Johnston, Nikolas P., et al. “Taxonomic Revision of Australian Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae): Integrating Morphology and Genetics Finds a New Species and Tackles Old Problems.” European Journal of Taxonomy, 2020.
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@article{nikolas2020a,
title = {Taxonomic revision of Australian Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae): integrating morphology and genetics finds a new species and tackles old problems},
year = {2020},
journal = {European Journal of Taxonomy},
author = {Johnston, Nikolas P. and Wallman, J. and Dowton, M. and Szpila, K. and Pape, T.}
}
Abstract
A taxonomic revision of the Australian species of Amobia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae) is completed using an integrated approach combining four molecular loci (three mitochondrial, COI, ND4 and CYTB; one nuclear, EF1α) and morphological data. A new species, Amobia (s. str.) serpenta sp. nov., endemic to Australia, is described, and Amobia auriceps (Baranov, 1935) and Amobia burnsi (Malloch, 1930) are re-described. Molecular data are used to reconstruct inter-specific and generic relationships and support morphological species hypotheses. Phylogenetic analysis places all three Australian Amobia species together with Amobia signata (Meigen, 1824) (a Palaearctic species) in a single clade sister to Senotainia Macquart, 1846 (in part), which is in agreement with previous phylogenetic studies of the Miltogramminae. In addition to the description of species and molecular phylogenetics, general host associations for the Australian species of Amobia are discussed and evidence for the synonymisation of A. pelopei (Rondani, 1859) and A. auriceps is refuted.