Advances in the cockroach phylogeny

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Presenting Author(s)

Dominic Anthony Evangelista (he/him/his)

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois

Co-Author(s)

JW

Jessica Ware

American Museum of Natural History
New York City, New York
MW

Megan M. Wilson

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bloomfield, New Jersey
Akito Y. Kawahara

Florida Museum Of Natural History
Gainesville, Florida
Manpreet Kaur Kohli

Baruch College, City University of New York
New York, New York
SS

Sabrina Simon

Wageningen University and Research
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
BW

Benjamin Wipfler
FL

Frederic Legendre
BO

Brian O'Meara

University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee

Since applying next-generation methods to the phylogeny of cockroaches and termites great advances have been made. With new, strongly supported phylogenies we have a better understanding of precursors to the evolution of eusociality, patterns of wing evolution, the origins of unique phenotypes, and the timing of important evolutionary events. By synthesizing our phylogenies with morphological evidence, we erect three new higher taxa (Anallactinae subfam. nov., Orkrasomeria tax. nov. and Hemithyrsocerini tribe nov.). Analyses investigating molecular support for these findings also suggest improvements to typical phylogenomic workflows.