Oreonebria K. Daniel, 1903

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Oreonebria K. Daniel, 1903

Both Nebria and Oreonebria are monophyletic and cluster together with good (ML) to strong (NJ) bootstrap support ( Fig. 2 , Supp. 2). In the case of the high-alpine Nebria cordicollis Chaudoir, 1837 -group, we here included three taxa: N. heeri K. Daniel, 1903 , recently raised to species level from a subspecies of cordicollis by Szallies & Huber (2013), N. cordicollis escheri Heer, 1837 from southeastern Switzerland, and N. cordicollis tenuissima Bänninger, 1925, the westernmost populations in the Swiss Alps. All species of the cordicollis -group, as well as N. fontinalis rhaetica K. & J. Daniel, 1890 show conspicuously low interspecific K2 distances (0.002- 0.018; Table 7).

As already mentioned by the authors ( Szallies & Huber, 2014) in their very recent description of O. buemlisalpicola, the included samples are clearly separate (K2 distances: intraspecific = 0.0-0.015; interspecific: 0.04-0.043; Table 8) and belong to the eastern distributed Oreonebria bremii, whereas the western ones belong to O. bluemlisalpicola .

Figures

Fig. 2. Best Maximum Likelihood tree (- ln = 3045.2577; Tamura-Nei + G model as selected by MEGA) based on COI sequences of 20 samples of Carabidae and Staphylinidae obtained by using MEGA 6. Values (over 50 %) of bootstrap support from 500 pseudo replicates are depicted above nodes.