Bothriomirini

Namyatova, Anna A. & Tyts, Veronica D., 2025, Total-evidence phylogeny of the subfamily Cylapinae and the divergence dates for its subgroupings (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1), pp. 1-34 : 27

Monophyly and phylogenetic position of Bothriomirini

The monophyly of Bothriomirini is not questioned (see node 5), which confirms the results of the study by Namyatova et al. (2019). Most of the apomorphies listed by Namyatova et al. (2019) and the present work are contradicted. However, we discovered that the microsculpture under the eye is present in different genera of this tribe and might be one of the main diagnostic characters for this group (Namyatova et al. 2019: fig. 5F). In the analysis by Wolski (2021), Bothriomirini are a sister group to the clade comprising Cylapini and Vanniini . In the paper by Oh et al. (2023), Bothriomirini form a clade with Eccritotarsini , although with low support. Our analyses did not confirm those relationships, because Bothriomirini form sister-group relationships with some representatives of Cylapini (node 8; see discussion of Cylapini ). In the future, a comprehensive phylogenetic study of the tribe using molecular data is needed to test the position of the Bothriomirini genera relative to each other. It is important to include Afrobothriomiris Gorczyca, 2000 , which is the only African representative of this tribe ( Gorczyca 2000), in the subsequent analyses.