Nyctiprogne latifascia, FRIEDMANN, 1945

Sigurðsson, Snorri & Cracraft, Joel, 2014, Deciphering the diversity and history of New World nightjars (Aves: Caprimulgidae) using molecular phylogenetics, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (3), pp. 506-545 : 541

NYCTIPROGNE LATIFASCIA FRIEDMANN, 1945

Definition

Previously Nyctiprogne leucopyga latifascia . It is elevated to full species status and is the sister species of a clade that contains N. leucopyga and N. vielliardi .

Diagnosis

Similar to N. leucopyga and N. vielliardi , but noticeably larger and with much darker, more blackish plumage. There is evidence for distinct vocalizations ( Friedmann, 1945; Naka, 2012).

There is over 8% divergence in ND2 sequences and 7% divergence in CYTB between N. latifascia and N. leucopyga , as well as 0.7% divergence in the ACO1 I9 sequences.

Comments

Genetic evidence in this study shows that N. leucopyga is non-monophyletic because some subspecies are more closely related to N. vielliardi than to N. leucopyga latifascia ( Fig. 6 ). This, along with morphological characters and observations on the vocalizations, supports recognizing two phylogenetic species: N. latifascia and N. leucopyga ( Fig 8 ).

Figures

Figure 6. A phylogeny of the genera Lurocalis, Nyctidromus, and Nyctiprogne within the South American clade, based on a maximum-likelihood (ML) analysis of a concatenated 5298-bp molecular data set. ML bootstrap values higher than 60 and Bayesian posterior probability values higher than 0.95 are displayed on the nodes. Names on the tree represent current taxonomy; names on the right represent those resulting from this revision (see text).

Figure 8. A summary tree showing 52 New World nightjar species using the taxonomy recommended in this study. Also shown are 15 Old World species. Maximum-likelihood (ML) and maximum-parsimony (MP) bootstrap scores are displayed above and below the nodes.