Copyedited by: OUP Insect Systematics and Diversity, (2018) 2(5): 3; 1–14 doi: 10.1093/isd/ixy013 Evolution Research Paleotropical Diversifcation Dominates the Evolution of the Hyperdiverse Ant Tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/isd/article-abstract/2/5/3/5108459 by DH Hill Library - Acquis S user on 30 September 2018 Formicidae) Bonnie B. Blaimer,1,5, Philip S. Ward,2 Ted R. Schultz,3 Brian L. Fisher,4 and Seán G. Brady3 1Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University, 100 Derieux Place, Raleigh, NC 27695, 2Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95616, 3Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, 4Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, and 5Corresponding author, e-mail:
[email protected] Subject Editor: Marko Mutanen Received 8 June 2018; Editorial decision 16 August 2018 Abstract Levels of diversity vary strikingly among different phylogenetic lineages of ants. Rapid radiations in early ant evolution have often proven diffcult to resolve with traditional Sanger-sequencing data sets of modest size. We provide a phylogenomic perspective on the evolution of the hyperdiverse ant tribe Crematogastrini by analyzing sequence data for nearly 1,800 ultraconserved element (UCE) loci from 153 species comprising 56 genera. We reconstruct a next-to-complete genus-level phylogeny using concatenated maximum likelihood and species-tree approaches, estimate divergence dates and diversifcation rates for the tribe, and investigate the evolution of nest sites. Our results show 10 well-supported major clades which we defne as the Cataulacus, Carebara, Vollenhovia, Podomyrma, Crematogaster, Mayriella, Lordomyrma, Myrmecina, Paratopula, and Formicoxenus genus-groups.