A tree of COI gene sequences from the new 136 species of Glyptapanteles is described here. The tree with the highest log likelihood (-12901.1226) is shown. Initial tree(s) for the heuristic search were obtained by applying the Neighbor-Joining method to a matrix of pairwise distances estimated using the Maximum Composite Likelihood (MCL) approach. A discrete Gamma distribution was used to model evolutionary rate differences among sites (5 categories (+G, parameter = 0.3431)). The rate variation model allowed for some sites to be evolutionarily invariable ([+I], 0.0000% sites). The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths measured by the number of substitutions per site. The analysis involved nucleotide sequences from 136 specimens using a total of 926 positions in the final dataset. Samples selected for this representative tree were the holotypes for each species except for five cases (indicated with an * on the tree) where the holotype was not successfully sequenced (G. boharti, G. alvarowillei, and G. alejandrovalerioi) or having sequence but with insufficient overlap to permit tree construction (G. mikeschauffi and G sondrawardae). In these cases, we substituted other high-quality sequences from the same species.

 
 
  Part of: Carolina Arias-Penna D, Whitfield JB, Janzen DH, Hallwachs W, Dyer LA, Smith MA, Hebert PD.N, Fernández-Triana JL (2019) A species-level taxonomic review and host associations of Glyptapanteles (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an emphasis on 136 new reared species from Costa Rica and Ecuador. ZooKeys 890: 1-685. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.890.35786