Three Taxa in One: Cryptic Diversity in the Black Fly Simulium nobile (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Southeast Asia

• Main Authors: Van Lun Low, Hiroyuki Takaoka, Pairot Pramual, Peter H. Adler, Zubaidah Ya’cob, Chee Dhang Chen, Subagyo Yotopranoto, Adnan Zaid, Upik Kesumawati Had, Maria Lourdes T Lardizabal, Affan Nasruddin-Roshidi, Mohd Sofian-Azirun
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2016
• Subjects: QL461-599.82 Insects
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34040/1/Three%20Taxa%20in%20One.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34040/2/Three%20Taxa%20in%20One1.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/34040/; https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/53/4/972/2222545; https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjw058
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sabah

We access the molecular diversity of the black fly Simulium nobile De Mejiere, using the universal cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) barcoding gene, across its distributional range in Southeast Asia. Our phylogenetic analyses recovered three well-supported mitochondrial lineages of S. nobile , su...