Contributions Zoology, to SPB Academic Key words: phylogeny, Russian Street Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya cladogram, ghost fossil record, range, Abstract to of the of calculation range between a on cladogram hymenopterous is proposed to assess and the fossil record and this basis. The method is tested insects to reveal the (Order Vespida), as and the results but perfect, is is Contents so are all and both why of 251 thy of comparison 252 discussion Conclusion 257 Acknowledgements 258 References 258 There are the Introduction Benton and metrics do extent ward research that ordinary condition in cladistic cladograms developed from different data for the set of taxa often differ significantly other. This is crucial since the one number of indices that have been statistical cladogram seems the 1996: 3.2.5). It is reasonable to seek on on principle our it may im- of evidence. This sources well, for the character set That always hypothetical. informa- evolutionary cladograms, but ‘perfection’, in com- even so possess are wor- testing phylogenies. proposed a record based of respective Hitchin not to quality assess fit the cladograms end, 1 am reverse of a taxa (reviewed agrees with task, that is, the taxon In its to test for their record. fossil proposing here by these a To- similar but present form the rough, but whenever found it may be propriate, cise rather it particular slightly different approach. method is how 1997). Unfortunately, of congruence with this on easily improved for more appre- calculation. There developed devia- Material parsimonious not process parsimony principle. less dependent one. features that reflect from the most however, that the evolutionary observe from each cladogram compari- is aimed at selecting the most correct (Quicke, in the fossil record is of the methods cladogram different tion of the evolutionary 254 of the fossil to estimate so record and the Material Methods are sources only degrees are a and our as polarity 251 son of the strictly dependent and transformation series exhaustive, never Introduction same source course, for cladistics true tion, the fossil an Russia Moscow, external standard in the comparison an cladograms. Of position It is 117647 on a is and Hague phylogeny discussed. Results a not evolutionary hypotheses, be used of cladograms developed recently of the are ghost cladograms compare set 123, The fossil record is congruence (2000) The Vespida, Hymenoptera information that is the 251-258 Rasnitsyn Paleontological Institute, A method (4) test fossil record: the ghost range Testing cladograms by Alexandr+P. 69 Publishing bv, so evident, does That is strictly why 1 it method of assessment particular evolutionary concepts. Fossil record of the Vespida = Hymenoptera) method for the any fossil enough to hymenopterous insects (Order following is selected reasons. to test the Incomplete like history, the hymenopteran record is rich represent as many as 51 out of 54 ex- 252 A.P. tant families is (e.g.. Fig. 1; superfamily Chalcidoidea used here as for it cladogram available these families sozoic, netic A be to to The test. 1 Fig. been have examples is based on to select Methods Mesozoic). When re- tree, and modifications the 2 shows the results caption. Fig. clade Rasnitsyn (1988), with several minor additions Roy, and Ras- Lindgren (1999). cryptic in as the fossil the molecular apocritan phylogeny performed by Dowton, Austin, Dillon and sky (1997: fig. 2), Orussidae and of Dowton of taxa by and Austin line I. Fig. lines Relation (more than ranges N - Paleogene, the Cenozoic, P thick - duration of the by amber Cretaceous 1986: fig. 66 F; Platygastridae my in - Lower Eocene, amber in and in the New Jersey East Siberia Guo et - P Lower of Ji as al., 2000), amber Cretaceous Lower a of genus in the cladogram to New of et ah, of Brazil it Miocene, N, and are in the (Darling outlined visually. These expressed lines the on - in T - are Lower it Cretaceous New , Known in the in of lowermost from J their aver- or Rasnitsyn, amber - Upper amber of Australia Dominican amber amber in the in the amber (old 1995; my disputably Upper (Jell by and Duncan identification), D.A. Grimaldi), Bethylonymidae in (my identification), Upper Eocene Upper Cretaceous Formicidae in Diapriidae “orphan” families by a and for some taxa ah, et P Upper (in - Baltic (my identification), Rhopalosomatidae that sometimes marked Cretaceous, - Baltic (Ren communication and the rest of Platygastroidea, are K Thick long ghost - Middle, Eocene of China 1988). lines modified are ranges Koonwarra, (my identification), by boundary lines, except thin Cretaceous of Mongolia (my Miocene Jersey How- geochronologi- Jurassic, - the Burmese Masner, personal the ghost their total dura- as Lower, - the Sharkey 1990), Sierolomorphidae Lebanese use and evalu- calculating Spain (my identification), Diapriidae in in is to try and comparison double Triassic, Cretaceous Cretaceous L. by of inference for a reason Mongolia (Rasnitsyn 1995b), Scolebythidae and displayed cladogram, ranges, indices: found Evaniidae in the well cladogram fits the duration of the ghost - Pliocene). the one extensively debatable issue, full an Periods: Sapygidae Lower of Alava, Upper as parsimonious degree This is might suggest by subscript Megalodontesidae), and lower Chalcidoidea) (modified record). shown 1998), Sclerogibbidae in the than set of taxa, competing cladograms. we thin Jersey (identified by in the Lower Cretaceous simplify - are Chalcidoidea(new family) superfamily (Karatavitidae and Ephialtitidae, Serphitidae separated fossil Argidae Monomachidae of Transbaicalia 1999). Superfamilies ( were more ranges more for range concept the absolute for vertical 1988), Megalodontesidae Plumariidae Cretaceous and Falsiformicidae N taxa. cal units is still (superfamily (Aptian) amber England (Rasnitsyn Janzen, 1999), (Dlussky et sources, as ever, Ipntering Oligocene, a These termed age duration per node per terminal branch. relationship, before following Scelionidae and the Lower Cretaceous (Brothers and Tiphiidae on Upper Cretaceous Cretaceous Embolemidae Ren, (Bashibuyuk the tion noth- families lines - thin the a apparent that the smaller the better the e., that 1-6). configuration in million years, either ranges contemporary (Holocene). Epochs - identification), Mymarommatidae in the the hymenopteran 1886, ignored by Rasnitsyn Jibaissodes identification of Thus ranges means geochronological epochs Paleocene, P, Brischke ones horizontal longevity, comparing Rasnitsyn (1988) basing data dendrograms implied ghost ghost ation of lines, relationships two horizontal two the lines; the vertical thin thin Neogene, R : All (1994). vertical and show known the duration of style, with the known duration being indicated by connecting Bartow- families, symphytan i. record, that respect due to added after the work horizontal thin lines, and the (see below) by - the Stephanidae unified in their are with Figs. particular ghost trees. It is respective particular a infer to fossil record would in a their the extension of these extensions, represents have we thin lines differ in they usually 3-5 Fig. 6 11), respectively. paleontologi- intervals of existence and fig. cases earlier than the (1997: fig. 2), Whitfield (1992: fig. 5), and Brothers Carpenter (1993: phylogenetic a to the length cladogram is developed for in Vilhelmsen cladograms re-drawn from the are Figs. cladogram into ‘ghost ranges’ (Norell, 1992). When nitsyn (1988) performed by Ronquist, Rasnitsyn, Eriksson some (vertical inferred recent parsimony re-consideration of the concept by In appears suggest in explained of the a fit the intemode we subclade. 1-6. Figs. we convert cally confirmed minimum duration of enough of them in hori- a are proposed displayed are connection of two parts of a Me- phyloge- family level phylogeny of the order, us than more zontal line. no families more since the (mostly variety allows and this from the high-level ing Testing cladograms by fossil record - 38 of as many starting and 20 cladograms the cently for recorded extinct wealth of As yet). wherein many occurred, events known are time a taxon because there is single a Rasnitsyn broken members and other arrow. amber of the Lower Cretaceous of of one and the same Proctotrupoidea) appear Contributions to Zoology, 69 (4) - 2000 253 A.P. 254 of gaps and traps for a special efforts not the matter of issue is fine than seem tuning sonable here is the the when cases inferred to for appearance unit. For the originate to than interval all a first should grid ghost ranges displayed as ranges ranges absent in figs 2-6 indicate the Fig. in Pompilidae and Sapygidae in Fig. 1, while in the case may be opposite molecular (1993) are ranges, more these two when tree based ranges, congruent the cladograms in regards long ghost terminal concern Fig. ranges. and taxa to 1 the seven taxa and of which cladograms with the fossil three families lacking ghost that ranges fossil record others (Blasticotomidae, Argidae and + Pergidae, Sapygidae) Late Eocene or later. (e. as tested, Furthermore, taxa. inclusions in the Baltic cases whenever I shall duces a tional tree with only long Relation Dashed double 75 terminal be et al. of the hymenopteran have taxa and taxa ranges as eight. to that ancestors cladogram is can we a age. infer in et So when it to the we have longer ghost In fact, al. Fig. 1. in never be iden- group rela- cladograms. Unlike take an groups always a daughter for earlier origin and range. I have discussed at reasons why it is ancestors necessary (Rasnitsyn, Ronquist’s cladogram (Fig. 2), long ghost ranges (cases of Cimbicidae, Mega- lodontesidae, by Ronquist not presence of sister Therefore, only available for these acknowledge phylogenetic four Argidae, seen equal 1996). pro- to those are length elsewhere “long” calculated my (those lacking autapomorphic char- such. therefore eight addi- additional as sister, a some however. mother-and-daughter taxa, the sister the amber) (Fig. 2) of the considered The results deserve gained by score own ranges states). The other cladograms follow the strict tionships found in discuss the ghost ranges (Cimbicidae, line - long ghost tified + they consider these cladogram from Ronquist 2. may in sections compared. cladistic concept Pompilidae, record ranges that appear in addition to these ghost Fig. g., the fossil acter five Electrotomidae Sclerogibbidae, enter These individual all other trees The that clade high ancestral taxa (Pergi- dae, Xiphydriidae and Bradynobaenidae), are record cladograms (each within its peculiar. My cladogram acknowledges the tree with 76 depicts eight long The of the occurrence the follows from the observation additional discussion, 1-6 show considerable differences between Figs. on 1. indicate that the corresponding cladograms ranges from Dowton with scope) infer the minimum number of ghost Results and discussion a tree (1988) and Brothers and Carpenter than the others. This that 1. Bradynobaenidae cladograms Fig. long longer here than are of the tree Fig. produces (Fig. 6) considers 24 terminal by Rasnitsyn long ghost in seen long ghost true). The The above results are Whitfield’s (the long ghost 1 of do not repeat those in 1. Fig. same as ter- Carpenter (Fig. It wasps. and four taxa produces eight long ghost double thin lines. The dashed double lines that appears in only aculeate the co-authors shown there are (13 long ghost superfamilies; his from Brothers and 19 terminal composite in mostly with ranges, all additional to those being the geochronological by thin vertical lines, while long ghost represented by deals concerns with the definition of two of the time 1-6). Thus, all 5) particular time a the time range, epochs (two steps or to its prior satisfy longer than, or terminal taxon a more present, ghost “long” equal to, Figs. ghost means additional two 4) also includes 13 terminal taxa and six (Fig. of sum This yields (Cimbicidae and Cephidae). cladogram rea- and The cladogram simple metrics applied subclade is the after even so ‘long ghost ranges’ per cladogram. fossil ranges complication. counting be more only the lower hymenopterans minal taxa) phylogeny. particular a when 1. Vilhelmsen’s cladogram (Fig. 3) Fig. considers sophistication now, in seen the method itself testing of a plest form, it will be the the metshidae, Ceraphronidae, and Apidae) above those preceded by necessary Testing cladograms by fossil record - Stephanidae, Ichneumonoidea, Trigonalidae, Mai- if the method is found workable in its sim- Indeed, The this However, taxa. approach does rather avoid to evaluate the absolute time ranges of the involved of To user. non-expert these traps, the calculation should be Rasnitsyn Ceraphronidae, and Apidae) appear (1999: figs. 2, 5 and 9, combined), formatted after Fig. I. Contributions to Zoology, 69 (4) - 2000 255 256 A.P. Fig. 3. Relation of the symphytan Fig. 4. Relation of the parasitic Fig. 5. Relation of the aculeate taxa taxa taxa as as as calculated Rasnitsyn by Vilhelmsen (1997: fig. 2), presented by Whitfield (1992: fig. 5), calculated by Brothers and - Testing cladograms by fossil record formatted formatted after after Figs. Carpenter (1993: fig. 11), Figs. 1, 1, 2 2. formatted after Figs. 1,2, Contributions Fig. Molecular phylogeny 6. Orussidae Stephanidae, because solely not and daughter 69 Zoology, to they of and (4) - 2000 hymenopteran Dowton by considered are et to 257 taxa al. as calculated (1997: fig. 2) be sister and of Tenthredinidae, groups is true for three dontesidae and dogram (Fig. 3); daughter taxon cases Cephidae) in my of cladogram directly from Of six Scpulcidae. are long (Fig. 4), five because phronoidea (s.str.) Vilhelmsen’s Cynipoidea from - ghost and Cerato descend Megalyridae, Platygastroidea cidoidea and the absent are Trigonalidae suggested there for (1994; fig. 3), formatted after Figs. 1, symphytan families, 2. Conclusion the + The above Chal- phylogenetic allow for the set same to compare and evaluate the results of application standable and That the the explain, record than the on sister groups, these latter being the additional (Fig. 6), cladogram long ghost ranges Four of them result from the In Dowton there comparing same are to causes: seven Fig. in 1. my cladogram, Tenthredinoidea originate directly from Xyclidae, Cephidae from from Sepuicidae, Trigonalidae Megalyridae, and Evaniidae + Gasteruptiidae from Praeaulacidae. The reasons pear in in the why Figs. 2, 3, Fig. 1, are relevant to the so evident. phylogeny than to methodology of will long ghost ranges of Possibly they Hymenoptera ap- seen are rather phylogenetics, and so they be considered elsewhere. groups At the cladogram by Brothers cates that the (1988) high straightforward from result i.e., the making of the automatic preciation Several range one and ways simple fits better of others, the only legitimate indi- by Rasnitsyn’s the present is not test method a used there, cladogram by the method of pencil” approach) instead of an ap- ancestor and descendant taxa. to further may of to Carpenter (1993) of the of appreciation time, testing of the received be development of proposed. is the calculation of the count under- are parsimony calculation, and of the method a same and score cladogram Flennig (“paper other 4 and 6 in addition to those not in cladistics. ones Moreover, in additional monoidea + Aculeata from daughter does at least in part. majority the partially least at mother and Ephialtitidae. taxa cladograms trees. proctotrupoid family Mesoserphidae, and Ichneu- and Austin’s the total different by of of the method to the cladogram from Rasnitsyn (1988) fossil depends possible that displayed ranges trees forming the background of these to ancestral us indicate observations of ghost amount cla- cladogram Cephidae is ranges in Whitfield’s tree in my The (Cimbicidae, Megaloin and Austin apocritans, Praesirici- dae, Megaspilidae, and Sphecidae, respectively. same Dowton by for the ghost The the most ghost evident length rather than the ranges: this would make the 258 A.P. method As possibility. there is precise. 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