Figure 1.
Psorthaspis spider wasp and velvet ant mimicry ring morphology and distribution, and Psorthaspis chronogram (a) Color patterns of the five velvet ant mimicry rings described by Wilson et al. (2012).
(b) Geographic distribution of the five velvet ant mimicry rings. (c) Color pattern of the nine Psorthaspis species placed next to their putative velvet ant mimicry rings. Numbers under each Psorthaspis species correspond to their positions on the phylogenetic tree and in Figure 2. Species number 2 [Psorthaspis texana] and number 9 [Psorthaspis nigriceps] did not yield usable DNA samples and was therefore not included in the phylogenetic analysis. (d) Geographic distributions of the Psorthaspis spider wasp mimicry rings. (e) Psorthaspis spider wasp chronogram. Bayesian posterior probabilities are displayed on nodes.
Figure 2.
Morphological trait NMDS ordination plot of Psorthaspis spider wasps and the Dasymutilla mimicry rings to which they were assigned a priori.
Circles denote velvet ant data (from Wilson et al. 2012) and squares represent Psorthaspis data. Numbers represent Psorthaspis species numbered in Figure 1.
Table 1.
Human perception tests of mimetic fidelity of Psorthaspis species reported by volunteers (N = 35).
Figure 3.
Tanglegram of Psorthaspis (left topology) and Dasymutilla (right topology).
Lines connect between members of the same mimicry rings in the two groups.