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Issue: Vol. 4375 No. 3: 25 Jan. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-01-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4375.3.4
Page range: 358–370
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Molecular delineation of the Agave Red Worm Comadia redtenbacheri  (Lepidoptera: Cossidae)

IFIT-Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados. Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco. 56230 Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México. México.
2Departamento de Preparatoria Agrícola, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo. Km. 38.5 Carretera México-Texcoco. 56230 Chapingo, Estado de México. México.
Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM. Av. Universidad 3000, Circuito Exterior S/N, Delegación Coyoacán, C.P. 04510 Ciudad Universitaria, D.F. México.
IFIT-Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados. Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco. 56230 Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México. México.
Departamento de Suelos, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Km. 38.5 Carretera México-Texcoco. 56230 Chapingo, Estado de México. México.
IFIT-Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados. Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco. 56230 Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México. México.
IFIT-Entomología y Acarología, Colegio de Postgraduados. Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco. 56230 Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México. México.
Maguey red worm México COI gene phytophagous specialist Agave sp. Lepidoptera

Abstract

Comadia redtenbacheri (Hammerschmidt) (Agave Red Worm) is the only member of the family Cossidae that has been described as a phytophagous specialist of the plant genus Agave, which is mainly distributed in México. A new extraction protocol adapted from Stewart & Via (1993) has been implemented for sequencing the COI gene from samples collected in five states of the North Central (Querétaro and Zacatecas), South Central (Estado de México) and East Central (Hidalgo and Tlaxcala) regions of México with the purpose of contributing to delineation of the species. A Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree based on these COI sequences as well as COI sequences from other Cossinae species was developed to complement the existing morphological and taxonomic approaches to delineation of this species. As expected, our Comadia samples cluster together within a monophyletic clade that includes four C. redtenbacheri sequences previously reported. This group seems to be consistent with our reconstruction, which is supported by a bootstrap value of over 99%. The closely related branches associated with the latter group include organisms known to be the plant and tree borers of the Cossinae subfamily. The COI sequences from our samples were analyzed to determine the percentage of identity among the C. redtenbacheri in a first attempt to detect differences in the sequence that matches a particular region of México.

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