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Grad Poster: SysEB, Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Biodiversity

Determining Minagenia (Pompilidae: Pepsinae) phylogeny and biogeography from museum specimens

Presenting Author(s)

Brenna L. Decker

Ph.D. Candidate
Utah State University
Logan, Utah, United States

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James P. Pitts

Utah State University
Logan, Utah, United States
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Emily Sadler-Pitts

Utah State University

Minagenia Banks, 1934 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae: Pepsinae) are small spider wasps with a mostly southern hemisphere distribution and only 19 described species. Presented is a preliminary global phylogeny of Minagenia, using ultra-conserved elements (UCEs) from museum specimens, to infer biogeographical and distribution patterns. The Center of Origin of this genus seems to be the Afrotropics (Madagascar, specifically). Long distance dispersal (LDD) from the Afrotropics is the most likely dispersal method with many instances of wind dispersal back and forth between continents.