Integrative taxonomy sheds light on species boundaries and relationships in the inbred haplodiploid ambrosia beetle genus Xyleborus

What is it about?

Taxonomists struggle with delimiting species in the fungus growing ambrosia beetles. Here we tested if these haplo-diploid and heavily inbred beetles conform to standard species concepts. Molecular and morphological data mostly delimit the same clades, but the molecular divergence suggest much bigger internal diversity than we expected.

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