水生甲虫系统发育研究进展

Review on Phylogeny of Aquatic Beetles

简要回顾了水生甲虫近十几年来各个分类阶元水平系统关系的研究历史,对代表性的水生甲虫类高级阶元系统发育关系进行了比较分析,总结了普遍存在的共识和争议。在研究进展中还介绍了分子生物学方法在水生甲虫系统发育研究中的尝试,虽然其研究结果还未能完全解决上述问题,但必将是对现有研究方法的补充。

Aquatic beetles are the insects which inhabit water ecosystem in their life history. The systematic researches on aquatic beetles are very important to monitor water quality, biological theory studies and so on. In the paper, the recent studies on phylogeny of aquatic beetles are reviewed and some results of recent molecular systematics are introduced. Although these studies could not solve the phylogeny completely, molecular methods are very useful to phylogenetic researches of aquatic beetles.