New spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) phylogeny with use of ultra-conserved elements

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Presenting Author(s)

Brenna L. Decker

Utah State University
Logan, Utah

Co-Author(s)

JP

James P. Pitts

Utah State University
Logan, Utah
ES

Emily Sadler-Pitts

Utah State University
AS

Akira Shimizu

Tokyo Metropolitan University
CS

Christian Schmid-Egger

Ökoteam Institute For Animal Ecology And Landscape Planning
JR

Juanita Rodriguez

CSIRO
CW

Cecilia Waichert

Universidade Vila Velha
BD

Bryan Danforth

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Bonnie B. Blaimer

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
SB

Sean G. Brady

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, District of Columbia

Phylogenetic systematics has begun to extensively use ultra-conserved elements (UCEs) over the past several years, allowing vast amounts of new data to be extracted from museum specimens. Pompilidae (Hymenoptera) has historically been a difficult wasp family to construct a phylogeny, with different topologies resulting from sequencing different genes. We are in the process of sequencing museum specimens of spider wasps from all genera and most parts of the world and can now present a preliminary phylogeny with over 400 specimens. Several groups will be revised as a result of this project, and others have had their previous relationships supported.