Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
D eveloping a structural phylogenetic framework for the family Tachinidae has been an interest of mine since I first started working on tachinids as a graduate student. It was then that I developed a new phylogenetic perspective with which to view the world, and many of the questions I wanted to ask of tachinids depended on some level of phylogenetic knowledge of them. I was surprised at the time that no one had attempted a broad quantitative phylogenetic analysis of the family, and a publication from my thesis work on the Exoristinae (Stireman 2002) became the first such study that I know of. Ever since that initial work, I have been seeking ways to continue working towards the development of a broad and robust phylogeny of Tachinidae (e.g., Stireman 2005, 2010).
Repository Citation
Stireman, J. O.,
O'Hara, J. E.,
Moulton, M. C.,
Cerretti, P.,
& Winkler, I. S.
(2013). Progress towards a phylogeny of world Tachinidae. Year 1. The Tachinid Times (26), 4-9.
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