A cladistic analysis of the swarm-founding neotropical social wasp genus Charterginus is presented. A single cladogram resulted from the analysis of 31 morphological characters and six nest characters, with relationships ...

In this article, I examine the issue of the alleged circularity in the determination of homologies within cladistic analysis. More specifically, I focus on the claims made by the proponents of the dynamic homology approach, ...

A cladistic analysis using parsimony was carried out, including all six species of Paspalum sect. Pectinata plus an outgroup composed of six species of Paspalum subg. Ceresia, six additional Paspalum species belonging to ...

The genera Moscharia (two species) and Polyachyrus (seven species) form a monophyletic group within tribe Mutisieae, subtribe Nassauviinae, defined by the leaves with auricles at their bases, and the capitula with 1-seriate ...

A new species, Rheochluslatisetussp. nov., is described from male and female adults from Argentina. Emendations and illustrations of the three previously known species of Rheochlus Brundin, 1966 are provided. A cladistic ...

The subfamily Nothopuginae is revised. Titanopuga salinarum gen. et sp. nov., Cuyanopuga bilobata gen. et sp. nov. and Nothopuga telteca sp. nov. are described. We performed a cladistic analysis based on 144 morphological ...

A new species of Stygnidae is described from the state of Bahia, Brazil. Protimesius bahiensis sp. nov. can be distinguished from the remaining species of the genus by the combination of: male femur IV unarmed and cylindrical; ...

The tarantula genus Ephebopus Simon 1892 is reviewed and includes the type species, E. murinus (Walckenaer 1837), and E. uatuman Lucas, Silva & Bertani 1992, E. cyanognathus West & Marshall 2000, E. rufescens West & Marshall ...