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Anelaphus villosus (Fabricius) and A. parallelus (Newman) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) can be accurately distinguished using body measurements and DNA barcoding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2021

William P. Brown Open the ORCID record for William P. Brown [Opens in a new window] ,
Robert Salerno  and
Luciana Cursino
William P. Brown*
Affiliation:
Penn Yan, New York, United States of America
Robert Salerno
Affiliation:
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York, United States of America
Luciana Cursino
Affiliation:
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York, United States of America
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Anelaphus villosus (Fabricius) and A. parallelus (Newman) are longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Cerambycinae: Elaphidiini) that closely resemble each other in appearance. In practice, if antennomere 3 is distinctly longer than antennomere 4, the specimen is considered to be A. villosus, but the accuracy of this methodology is unknown. Authorities disagree about the ease of separating these two species based on morphological traits, and recent work hypothesises that they should be synonymised due to the difficulty of distinguishing them by either morphology or natural history. Assuming correct initial species determinations of curated specimens, as well as of those determined with DNA barcoding and by the primary author, data from 23 body measurements were collected from 50 A. villosus and 60 A. parallelus specimens. Stepwise discriminant analyses and discriminant functions were used to evaluate the ability to distinguish these species based on morphology. Species assignments from discriminant functions were very accurate and were supported by assignments determined with DNA barcoding. The ability to distinguish A. villosus and A. parallelus based on morphological and molecular differences provides evidence against the taxonomic hypothesis of synonymy under one species. A need for greater ecological understanding of these species remains.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 153 , Issue 6 , December 2021 , pp. 787 - 799
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Entomological Society of Canada

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Subject Editor: Andrew Smith

ZooBank registration number: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C16F399D-1C4F-426D-9A64-AC478794ECE2

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