Phylogenetic analyses and species delimitation of Nephotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) in China based on molecular data
2021
Gao, Yao | Zhang, Yalin | Dietrich, Christopher H. | Duan, Yani
Nephotettix leafhoppers are widely distributed and some members of this genus are important vectors of rice pathogens. Species delimitation in this group has proven difficult because traditional morphological characters tend to exhibit substantial variation within populations, and the morphology-based species classification of this genus has not previously been tested using molecular data. This study analysed DNA sequence data from three mitochondrial genes (COI, Cytb and 16S) and two nuclear genes (ITS2, H3) to infer the phylogenetic relationships and status of five previously recognized Nephotettix species and compare the performance of different molecular species-delimitation methods using single loci and multiple loci. The analysis supports the monophyly of Nephotettix and divided the included haplotypes into five well-supported subclades. Data from the three mitochondrial genes were usually consistent with morphology in supporting recognition of five species. However, data from the two nuclear genes usually lumped the haplotypes into a single species, probably due to the relatively small numbers of variable and parsimony-informative nucleotide positions present in these loci. The jMOTU and ABGD analyses of single mitochondrial loci gave the most consistent results with morphology. Considering the variable results yielded by various methods employing single loci, the BPP method, which combines data from multiple loci, may be more reliable in Nephotettix.
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