Phylogenetic tree showing relationships between cercosaurine genera or, in cases when genera were not recovered as monophyletic, their major lineages. The tree is a strict consensus tree based on the results of three analytical approaches undertaken: ML, MrBayes, BEAST. The 24 lineages shown were supported in all three phylogenetic analyses. Relationships between genera are shown as dichotomies only for nodes that were strongly supported in all three analyses; otherwise, nodes were collapsed into polytomies to emphasise how little we can tell about the phylogeny of the subfamily Cercosaurinae with the data currently available. Outgroups are not depicted. For a tree that shows variability within genera see Fig. 3, for full trees see Fig. S1–S3. The pie charts on the right show i) species richness of the genera indicated by circle size with the proportion of species included in the analyses highlighted in red (left column), and ii) number of samples (log scale) available for each genus indicated by circle size with the proportion of material newly sequenced in this study in red (right column).