Biosystematic Study in Tortricidae (Lepidoptera), with a Note on Evolutionary Rates of Allozymes

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Abstract
Systematic relationships were examined at subfamily, tribal, generic, and species levels in tortricid moths by allozyme analysis. Principle coordinate ordination, UPGMA phenograms, and Wagner trees were compared with each other and with morphologically determined relationships. These three methods resulted in very similar patterns of relatedness. Subfamily separation was perfectly congruent with morphology. In one subfamily, agreement continued to the subtribal level, but in the other, some members of different tribes were mixed. Intratribal comparisons did not place all congeners together. However, allozyme relationships of species within the genus Cydia were in agreement with classical taxonomic assignments. Lack of agreement at the generic level is attributed to convergence of quickly evolving alleles and lack of divergence of slowly evolving ones.

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