Régimbart [ 10] was the first author who suggested a delimitation of Acilius, Graphoderus and Hydaticus similar to the one used today based on characters of the metasternal wing and metatibial spurs, but Thermonectus and Sandracottus were included in Graphoderus.
The next major contribution to sphingid systematics came from Nakamura [44] [46], who reclassified several sphingid tribes and proposed relationships among Japanese hawkmoth genera based on characters of the larva and pupa (Fig. 1B), although without explicit cladistic analysis.
A morphological study based on characters of the thorax contributed by Friedrich and Beutel (2010) [ 79] offered two scenarios depending on the phylogenetic algorithm used: Coleopterida as the most basal group in the Bayesian analysis, but Hymeoptera as the most basal when using parsimony.
In more-detailed classification schemes based on character of eruption, volcanic activity and volcanic areas are commonly divided into six major types, shown schematically in the diagram.
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Spectral partitioning subdivides characters in an alignment into a prespecified number of clusters based on character compatibility [ 46].
However, these referrals have been questioned [5], [11] because they are based solely on characters of the dentition that are known to be highly homoplastic.
This diagnosis, based on the characters of one premolar and four molar teeth since augmented by a few complete jaws, is not by any means universally accepted.
Scoring of the five families of Raphidiomorpha were made based on the characters of the genera Baissoptera Martynova, 1961, Mesoraphidia Martynov, 1925, Metaraphidia Whalley, 1985, Turcoraphidia Aspöck & Aspöck, 1968 and Sininocellia Yang, 1985 [ 13, 24, 29, 30].
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