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Odonatologica29(2): 129-136 June 1, 2000 Thephylogenyof the genusLeucorrhinia and theevolutionof larval spines (Anisoptera: Libellulidae) A.Westman,F. JohanssonandA.N.Nilsson DepartmentofEcology and Environmental Science, Umeå University,SE-90187 Umeå,Sweden Received March22, 1999/Revised andAcceptedSeptember1,1999 A cladistic analysis ofthe genus Leucorrhinia, based on adult morphological characters, found onemostparsimonoustree with aconsistencyindex of0.35, The evolution oflargedorsallarval spineswasmappedontheresultingtree.Thismapping suggeststhat thepresence ofspinesistheprimitivestatewithinLeucorrhinia andthat theyhave disappearedonfive differentoccasions,orhave disappearedtwice onlower branches andreappearedthree timeshigherupin the tree. INTRODUCTION Odonatelarvae are common prey ofmany predator groups:birds (KENNEDY, 1950) fish(CROWDER&COOPER, 1982;RASK, 1986),andotherinvertebrates (PRITCHARD, 1964).As prey they showavarietyofbehavioural(PIERCE, 1988; McPEEK, 1990),and morphological adaptations (JOHANSSON & SAMUELS- SON, 1994;McPEEKetal., 1996) against predation. Thepresence of spines on the body has been shown to provide an effective protection against predators in many animal groups (EDMUNDS, 1974;HAVEL &DODSON, 1984;ABRAHAMS, 1995). Manyodonategenera,especially among the anisopterans, have larvae with prominent lateraland dorsal spines on the abdomen(WALKER, 1958;WALKER & CORBET, 1975;ASKEW, 1988).In odonates, the larval spines mayfunction as an aidin climbing and sprawling in vegetation andon the substrate (DA SILVA AGUIAR, 1989)and as protection againstpredators (JOHANSSON&SAMUELSSON,1994).Currently thereissome supportfor thepredator defencehypothesis in Leucorrhiniadubialarvae. Larvae ofL. dubia grow longer spines in habitats with fish, fish have longer handling times when eating long-spined larvae,andfish inducedifferencesin spine shape underlaboratory conditions(JOHANSSON&SAMUELSSON, 1994;ARNQVIST 130 A.Westman, F. Johansson &A.N. Nilsson & JOHANSSON, 1998).Considering thepotential useofthesespines itwouldbe interesting to know how they have evolved in a genus. Being potentially highly adaptive andconnectedtohabitatshifts, convergentevolutionofspinesis expected. Inthisstudy we focus ontheevolutionoftheabdominalspines in larvaeofthe genusLeucorrhinia(Anisoptera,Libellulidae,Sympetrinae), inwhichsomespecies have prominent spines while others have very small spines on the abdomen (WALKER&CORBET, 1975;ASKEW, 1988). The genusconsistsof 14species andseveralsubspecies (DAVIES & TOBIN, 1985). Thepurposeofour study was to provide aphylogeny ofthe genusandmaptheevolutionoflarval spines on the resulting tree. MATERIALANDMETHODS Weused 14taxainthe genusfor ouranalysis (Tab.I). L. ussuriensis Bartenef wasexcluded from the study since nospecimens wereavailable. In addition,recent results suggest this species tobe a synonym ofL. orientalis Selys (MALIKOVA, 1995). Since L. dubia orientalis Belyshev has been TableI The speciesusedin thisstudy,theirgeographicdistributionandinformationabout the specimens'sex andwherethey werecollected.- [Vb=Vasterbotten;- Vrm=Varmland;- Upl=Uppland;- Dlr=Dalarna; - Got=Gotland; - Vstm=Vastmanland; - Vg=Vastergotland],- Celithemis and Sympetrumwereusedas outgroups SSppeecciieess DDiissttrriibbuuttiioonn NNuummbbeerraannddoorriiggiinnooffssppeecciimmeennss LL. aallbbiiffrroonnss((BBuurrnmt..)) EEuurrooppee I1d3,,VVbb;;l1dd,V,Vrrmm;;I1dd,,UUppppll;;22$9,,GGoott,,SSwweeddeenn LL..bboorreeaalliissHHaagg.. CCaannaaddaa--NN.. UUSSAA 22cdJ,,YYuukkoonn TTeerr;; 1192,,SSaasskkaattcchheewwaann;; 1129,, MMaanniittoobbaa,,CCaannaaddaa LL.. ccaauuddaalliiss ((CChhaarrpp..)) EEuurrooppee 22<dJ,, 2229,,NNoorrwwaayy LL.. dduubbiiaadduubbiiaa((VVaann ddeerrLL..)) EEuurraassiiaa 22dd,, 1129,,VVbb,, SSwweeddeenn LL. dduubbiiaaoorriieennttaalliiss SSeell.. SSiibbeerriiaa--JJaappaann 22d3,,2229,,HHookkkkaaiiddoo,, JJaappaann LL.ffrriiggiiddaaHHaagg,. NN.. AAmmeerriiccaa I1d6,, 1129,, OOnnttaarriioo,,CCaannaaddaa LL..ggllaacciiaalliiss HHaagg.. NN,,AAmmeerriiccaa I1d3,,2229,,OOnnttaarriioo,,CCaannaaddaa;; IIdd,, 1129,,CCaalliiffoorrnniaia,, UUSSAA LL.. hhuuddssoonniiccaa ((SSeell..)) NN..AAmmeerriiccaa 333d,,3329,,QQuueebbeecc,,CCaannaaddaa;; 22d3,,CCaalliiffoorrnniiaa,,UUSSAA LL. iInnttaaccttaa HHaagg.. NN..AAmmeerriiccaa 1192,,OOnnttaarriioo;;22d3,,2229,,QQuueebbeecc,,CCaannaaddaa LL. iinntteerrmmeeddiiaa BBaarrtt,. AAssiiaa 22d3,, 1129,,HHookkkkaaiiddoo,, JJaappaann;;1129,,RRuussssiiaannffaarrEEaasstt ((HHeellssiinnkkii MMuusseeuumm)) LL..ppaattrriicciiaa WWaallkkeerr CCaannaaddaa 22d3,,2229,,OOnnttaarriioo,,CCaannaaddaa LL..ppeeccttoorraalliissCChhaarrpp.. EEuurrooppee IIdd,, DDiirr;; 1129,,UUppppll;;IIdd,,1192,,VVssttmm;;IIdd,, 1129,, VVgg,,SSwweeddeenn LL.pprrooxxiimmoo CCaallvv.. CCaannaaddaa--NN.. UUSSAA 22dd,, 1129,,OOnnttaarriioo,,CCaannaaddaa LL. rruubbiiccuunnddaa ((LL..)) EEuurraassiiaa 22dd,,2229,,VVbb,, SSwweeddeenn CCeelliitlhheemmiisseeppoonniinnaa((DDmm..)) NN., AAmmeerriiccaa IIcdJ,, 1199,,FFlloorriiddaa,,UUSSAA CC.. oormnaattaa((RRaammbb..)) UUSSAA IIdd,, 1129,,FHloonriddaa,, UUSSAA SSyymmppeettrruummddaannaaee ((SSuullzz..)) HHoollaarrccttiicc 33dd,,1192,,VVbb,, SSwweeddeenn SS.. oobbttrruussuumm ((HHaagg..)) NN..AAmmeerriiccaa 443d,,2229,,OOnnttaarriioo,,CCaannaaddaa Phylogeny ofLeucorrhinia 131 treated asavalidspeciesby someauthors(BELYSHEV, 1973; ISHIDA, 1996),weincluded this taxon inthe analysis. To generateahypothesis aboutthe phylogeneticrelationship among the specieswe performedacladisticanalysis using 24adultcharacters(Tab.II).Ofthesecharacters, 7wereexamined inbothsexes, 14inmalesonly and3 infemales only.Statesformostcharacters wereobtainedfrom multiplespecimens(Tab.I).We included fourspeciesin the outgroup (TabI):the nearcticCelithemis eponinaand C. ornata(Leucorrhiniini),and fromSympetrinithe twospeciesSympetrumdanae and S. obtrusum. Character state distribution was entered in MacClade 3.03 (MADDISON & MADDISON, 1992), andthereafterthematrixwasfurtheranalysedinboth MacCladeand PAUP 3.1(SWOFFORD, 1993). Allmultistate characters weretreated asunordered. Ageneralheuristic searchwas doneinPAUPin order tofind the mostparsimonious tree(s).Branch support was tested with bootstrappingin PAUP (FOREY etal„ 1992). Theoccurrenceofspineswastaken fromthe literature(WALKER&CORBET, 1975;CANNINGS &STUART, 1977;ASKEW, 1988;NORLING&SAHLEN, 1997),andsomeunpublishedobservations wereprovidedby S.Cannings. Table II Character and characterstates used inthecladisticanalysis Characters present inboth sexes (1) Labium,colour: (0)atleast outer marginlight; (1) all black (2) Fore wing,number ofcellrows between IR3 andRspl: (0) 1;(1)2 (3) Fore wing, MAandCuP:(0)parallel;(1) divergent (4) Base ofhind wing: (0)without distinctblack spot; (1)with distinct blackspot (5) Metatibia,denserow ofspinesbelowtheknee; (0)absent;(1)present (6) Abdominalsegments 2-4: (0)normal; (1)whitepowdered (7) Abdominal superiorappendagescolour: (0) dark;(1) white Characters present inmales (8) Thorax, colourofsetation: (0)light;(1)mixture oflightand dark (9) Thorax, colour: (0)notmetallic;(1)metallic (10) Mesepistemumadjacenttomesepimeron,colour:(0)brown; (1)black (11) Mesepimeron,shapeofbrownfield: (0)notwiderthantall;(1)wider than tall (12) Metepimeron,colour:(0)predominantlyblack; (1)predominantlybrown (13) Anterior lamina,posterioredge: (0)straight; (1)splitor excavated (14) Hamulus,lateral outgrowth:(0)absent;(1)present; (2)present withanindentation (15) Hamulus:(0)withoutspines; (1)withspines (16) Hamulus,anterior tips:(0)bentoutwards;(1)notbentoutwards (17) Hamulus, posterioredge: (0)bent upwards; (1)notbent upwards (18) Genital lobe: (0)without spines;(1)with spines (19) Abdominalsegment7, colourofdorsalspot: (0)red;(1)yellow;(2)absent (20) Abdominal segment9,ventral placementofgonopore: (0) displacedforward;(1)in themiddle ofthesegment (21) Inferiorappendage,form:(0)sidesconvergingposteriorly;(1)sidesparallel;(2)sides diverging posteriorly Characters present infemales (22) Vulvar lamina,form:(0)longerthan wide;(1)aslongaswide;(2)widerthan long (23) Vulvar lamina,direction ofthe median gonapophyses:(0)backwards; (1)sidewards (24) Vulvarlamina, surfacebehindthemediangonaphyses:(0)nohairs; (I)withhairs 132 A.Westman, F. Johansson & A.N. Nilsson RESULTS Thecharactermatrixis showninTableIII. Thecladogram presented inFigure 1, isthesingle shortesttree foundby PAUP(TL79,Cl0.354,RI0.545).Thebootstrap testprovided statisticalsupportonly for theingroup (79%), andtheL. albifrons + L. caudalis clade (51%). Thepresenceoflargelarval spines is not restrictedto asingle branchonthetree (Fig. 1). Applying Farris optimization (FARRIS, 1970) to the tree gave several equallyparsimonious solutions,inallofwhichthespinesarepartoftheLeucorrhinia groundplan. Eitherthe spines have disappeared onfive differentoccasions within thegenus, orthey have disappeared twiceonlowerbranchesandreappeared three timeshigher upinthetree.Asingle disappearanceofthespines wouldincreasethe tree length byat leastseven steps. DISCUSSION It is clear from the phylogeny, that the presence of large larval spines is not restrictedtoasingle clade.McPEEK(1995) suggested thatchanges inmorphology ofdamselfly larvaewere associated withhabitatshifts.After such ahabitatshift, selectionpressureexertedbytheenvironmentshouldfavourthemorphologies best adaptedtothenewenvironmentalconditions.Undertheassumption thatlargespines are beneficialin someenvironmentsbutnot inothers, themultiple disappearance ofspines in the tree suggests several such habitatshifts. These shifts might have triggered a reduction of the spine length. Currently we do not know what environmentalconditionsthatcause the reductionoflarge spines. We know that fish predators have difficultiesin handling L. dubia larvae with large spines (SAMUELSSON & JOHANSSON, 1994),butwe do not know the disadvantage ofhaving long spines, besidesa general cost inproducing them. Thefact that L. dubialarvae show very low abundancein thepresence offish compared to in the absence offish (HENRIKSON, 1988; SAMUELSSON & JOHANSSON, 1994), suggests that spines are not very effective against fish predators. However, arelevantcomparison inthiscontext wouldbebetween spine and spineless species withregard toabundance with fish. Itis interesting to note that the longitudinal darkbands present on the ventral side ofthe abdomenis negatively correlatedwith spine length in the genus. Whilethe correlationis less clear amongthe palaearctic species, a strong negative correlationexists forthe NorthAmericanspecies (WALKER & CORBET, 1975;NORLING & SAHLEN, 1997).Crypticcolorationhasbeenshowntobeaneffective defenceagainstpredators inmanyspecies (EDMUNDS, 1974),butas farasweknow, nostudieshavelooked attheeventualfunctionofcryptic colorationinodonatelarvae.Moreworkis clearly needed,especially withregard toabundancepatternsofspinedandspineless species, larvalcolorationandhow thesearerelatedtoenvironmentalconditions. PhylogenyofLeucorrhinia 133 mark 2244 ? 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 question 2233 0 0 7 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 2222 0 2 10 2 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 a 1010100001 by 2211 0 0? 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 denoted 2200 0 0 00 10 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1000???100000210010 are 1199 0 2? i 2 0 2 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 certainty 1188 000000000000000000000000? 00000000001010100002002000000100?00000010010?0?1?10 00011111011101101002102100 1 01011100000101100000001111 1011111110011101012010000 1011100100100101000011010 1111100101100111000110110 10011100100011111111110010111020011110010002112101 1011100100100111010021011 010111001011002001000101111011100100111211110011010 101110010110020110111111 101110010011110011001211 101110010110100010001211 1177 0 0 1 1 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 with 1166 0 0 0 0 10 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 determined 1155 0 0 0 1 00 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1144 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 1 0 be 1133 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 not 1122 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 ? 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 could 1111 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 7 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 that 01010000010101 HI 1100 0 1 0 1 1 00 0 1? 0 0 0 1 0 I 0 1 Table Characters 99 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88 0 0 0 0 0 01 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 species. 77 0 0 7 0 1 01 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66 0 0 0 0 1 01 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 examined 55 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 the 44 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 among 33 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 101 states 22 0 0 0 1 0 00 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 I 0 1 1 1 1 1 character the nnoo.. of distribution SSppeecciieess//CChhaarraacctt.. oorriieennttaalliiss oobbttrruussuumm ddaannaaee eeppoonniinnaa oormnaattaa aallbbiiffrroonnssbboorreeaalilsis cacuaduadlaislis dduubbiiaa ffrriiggiiddaa ggllaacciiaalliisshhuuddssoonniiccaa Iinnttaaccttaa iinntteerrmmeeddiiaa ppaattrriicciiaappeeccttoorraalliiss pprrooxxiimmoorruubbiiccuunnddaa dd.. dd.. The SS.. SS.. CC.. CC.. LL. LL. LL. LL.. LL.. LL.. LL. LL. LL. LL.LL. LL. LL.LL.. 134 A.Westman, F. Johansson &A.N.Nilsson As seen in the low Cl and lack of strong statistical support, our phylogenetic hypothesis is weak. A more firmly based phylogenetic hypothesis would probably be possible tofindbyadding also characters from larvae to the analysis. However,thiswasnot possible at this stage of our investigation duetothelackof larval material of several species. Adding only the abdominalspine character to the analysis resulted in four shortest trees, one of which was the same as the tree in Figure 1. Theotherthreetrees differedonly intheposition of L. borealis and L. rubicunda , showing thesame dynamicsin the evolution of the larval spines as our firsttree. The best supported mono- phyletic group within the genus is the L. albifrons + L. Fig. 1.The shortest tree found. The presence (*) oflarge caudalisclade, supported by abdominalspinesinlarvaeis shownfor each terminaltaxon. characters no. 7 (abdominal superior appendages), 9(thorax colour) and 16(hamulus anteriortips).This clade isgroupedtogetherwithL. frigidaby characterno. 13(posterioredge oftheanterior lamina)andno. 6(abdominalsegments2-4 white-powdered). As L. albifrons and L. caudalis lookvery muchalikeintheiroverallappearancewithwhite-powdered abdomens, itis interesting to note that they also have genital similarities. An interestingthing tonoteinthetreeis thatL. dubiadubiaandL.dubiaorientalisdid not grouptogether as suggested in some odonata lists e.g. DAVIES & TOBIN (1985),HARITONOV &MALIKOVA(1998).InsteadL. dubiaorientalisappeared asthesister-taxonofL.glacialis.Themonophylyofthisgroupdependson character no.2, sayingthatthesetwo species are theonly onesthathavedoublerowsofcells betweenIR3 andRspl., and characterno. 15 (spines on hamulus). 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